Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man
Object type: Drawing
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Culture: Italian, Florence
Artist: Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
Artist bio: Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?)
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: ca. 1420
Medium: Metalpoint, touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with white (partially oxidized in the figure at the lower left), on reddish violet prepared paper.  Some lines retraced in pen and brown ink at a later date.
Dimensions: 9 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.  (24.9 x 18.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession year: 1975
Tags: Men