Allegorical Figure of a Woman with a Shield or a Mirror (Prudence?)

Allegorical Figure of a Woman with a Shield or a Mirror (Prudence?)

SK-A-3438

The female figures in this painting and its pendant are rendered in a limited range of colours, thereby evoking marble or stucco reliefs on a gold ground. Because these decorative paintings were meant to be seen from a distance, Tiepolo did not find it necessary to make the figures clearly identifiable. This woman may represent Prudence (prudentia), and the other one Fortitude (fortitudo) holding a club.

painter: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

c. 1740 - 1750

olieverf op gouden grond, op doek

height 81 cm x width 65 cm

J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam

bequest 1941

Public domain

See the provenance for SK-A-3437.

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