Allegory of Virtue and Vice
Allegory of Virtue and Vice
- Artist
- Lorenzo Lotto
- Artist Dates
- c. 1480-1556/1557
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Allegory of Virtue and Vice
- Date
- 1505
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 56.5 x 42.2 cm (22 1/4 x 16 5/8 in)
- K Number
- K303
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1939.1.156
- Notes
Provenance
Bernardo de' Rossi, Bishop of Treviso from 1505 until 1510. [1] Probably Palazzo Farnese, Parma. Antonio Bertioli, Parma, by 1791 until at least 1803. Giacomo Gritti, Bergamo, by c. 1880. (sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 May 1934, no. 129); purchased by Martin Asscher, London. [2] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1935 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] The painting bears his coat-of-arms. [2] According to Kress files in NGA curatorial records. [3] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of the Italian Paintings_, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:278.