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Allegorical Figure of a Woman with a Shield or a Mirror (Prudence?)
Also titled Allegorische vrouwenfiguur met een schild of spiegel (wellicht Voorzichtigheid)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696–1770)
c. 1740 - 1750
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- height 81 cm x width 65 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The female figures in this painting and its pendant are rendered in a limited range of colours, thereby evoking marble or stucco reliefs on a gold ground. Because these decorative paintings were meant to be seen from a distance, Tiepolo did not find it necessary to make the figures clearly identifiable. This woman may represent Prudence (prudentia), and the other one Fortitude (fortitudo) holding a club.
