Description
Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (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.. Original: 9 13/16 x 7 5/16 in. (24.9 x 18.5 cm).
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Printed from The Met’s Open Access image (CC0). View the original at The Met (object 459234).