Lorenzo Monaco

Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man

ca. 1420
Metalpoint, touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with white (partially oxidized in the figure at the lower left), on reddish violet prepared paper. Some lines retraced in pen and brown ink at a later date.
24.9 × 18.5 cm (9.8 × 7.3 in)

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