Allegory of Virtue

Title

Allegory of Virtue

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Kunstsammlung Hermann Göring - DHM online database: https://www.dhm.de/index.php?id=22191]

This small format painting is an allegorical depiction, showing the personification of Virtue standing on a rocky mountain. The inscription informs the viewer of how difficult it is to scale the mountain of Virtue, and with the landscape the artist embeds the scene in a naturalistic setting.

[cda 2020]

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Alford 2012, 199, no. 390]

Production date: 1548

Production date

1548

[dated]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 32 x 20.5 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 32 x 20.5 cm
[Alford 2012, 199, no. 390]

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Unknown

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P364
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P364/

Provenance

before 1940 in the collection of Rothschild-Halphen, Paris
confiscated during the 2nd World War
Hermann Göring Collection, no. 390
returned to France 1945
[Alford 2012, 199, no. 390]

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Alford 2012

199

Author	Kenneth D. Alford
Title	Herman Göring and the Nazi art collection. The looting of Europe's art treasures and their dispersal after World War II
Place of Publication	London
Year of Publication	2012

Show Literature

Allegory of Virtue, 1548

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