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

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · 1370–1425

Maximum print size

Frame
40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening
24.4 × 32.3 cm · 9.6 × 12.7 in
Mat border, sides
8.1 cm · 3.2 in
Mat border, top and bottom
9.4 cm · 3.7 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date
ca. 1420
Medium
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.
Type
Drawings
Size
24.9 × 18.5 cm · 9.8 × 7.3 in
Origin
Italian, Florence
Orientation
portrait
Subjects
Men
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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