Allegory of Virtue and Vice

Lorenzo Lotto1505

Details

Title: Allegory of Virtue and Vice
Creator: Lorenzo Lotto
Date Created: 1505
Physical Dimensions: overall: 56.5 x 42.2 cm (22 1/4 x 16 5/8 in.) framed: 70.17 × 58.1 × 8.26 cm (27 5/8 × 22 7/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
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 records in NGA curatorial files. [3] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of the Italian Paintings_, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:278. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/199.
Medium: oil on panel

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