Temperance
1628–30
- Medium
- black chalk heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk
- Dimensions
- 59.2 × 43.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-191570
The gridded pattern superimposed over the figures in this scene indicates that this drawing was used a preparatory study for one of Domenichino’s frescoes depicting the four cardinal virtues inside the dome of the Church of San Carlo ai Catinari in Rome. This technique—called squaring—was a common method used in seventeenth-century Italy to transfer a design from one surface to another. Domenichino prepared the design on three separate sheets of paper, all with irregular edges cut and pasted onto a larger sheet. At the top, the allegorical figure of Temperance, one of four cardinal virtues, r…
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1964.445
Registry history
- 1628–30 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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