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Perino del Vaga - Temperance, portrait

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Allegorical print showing a woman as Temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, seated, facing right, pouring liquid from a chalice, possibly diluting wine with water.

Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 25.

Attributed to Niccolò Vicentino after Perino del Vaga. Temperance.

Former attribution from Graphic sampler: Attributed to Vicentino, republished by Andrea Andreani.

Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 8.

Graphic sampler, p. 25, no. 8

Forms part of: Fine print filing series (Library of Congress).

Exhibited: "Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA., June - September 2018; at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 2018 - January 2019.

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Date

01/01/1540
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Contributors

Vicentino, Giuseppe Niccolo, approximately 1510-, artist
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National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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