Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Three Female Allegories (Truth and Prudence Overcoming Vice)

Attributed to Hans Rottenhammer
1564-1625

Three Female Allegories (Truth and Prudence Overcoming Vice)

6 5/8 x 6 inches (169 x 152 mm)
Pen and gray-brown ink, gray-brown wash, over black chalk, on paper.
IV, 27b

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Giambattista Zelotti, Verona 1526-1578 Mantua.
The current attribution to Rottenhammer was suggested by Peter Dreyer.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed beneath the figures, in pen and brown ink, from left to right, "veritta; prudencia; vicio". At lower right, in brown ink, "Cav. Carlo Ridalfi". At lower right, in graphite, "Zelotti?"; at lower right corner, in graphite, "47(?)". At upper left corner, in graphite, "59 // 9"
Associated names
Zelotti, Gian Battista, 1526-1578, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department