Temperance (Temperancia)

A nude woman stands on a stepped pedestal beside a classical column, holding a shallow bowl and a vessel while a cherub hovers above her. Fine parallel hatching models her body and the draped curtain, and the word TEMPERANCIA is engraved along the bottom edge.

Look closer: The monogram L and the plate number sit in the bottom right corner, near the inscription.

Artist

Lucas van Leyden

Date

1530

Medium

Engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1832 × 2674 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957