Allegorical Figure of a Woman with a Shield or a Mirror (Prudence?)
c. 1740 - 1750
- Medium
- canvas, grisaille
- Dimensions
- 81 × 65 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-107707
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.
Provenance
J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
Registry history
- c. 1740 - 1750 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum
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