Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)|Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue)
1570 or before
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with heightening in opaque white; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by the artist
21.6 × 29.8 cm (8.5 × 11.7 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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