Personifications and Virtues

Engravings of allegorical figures representing virtues and vices, featuring elegantly dressed women in classical styles, with a focus on themes of pride and faith.

Saint Cecilia with organ, Pieter de Bailliu (I), 1623 - 1660

Jeanne d'Albret

Salome with the head of John the Baptist. She shows the head on a bowl. In addition to her an old man, possibly herod. This print is part of an album.

Jadwiga Jagiellonka's princess portrait with a bird, according to the Fellner engraving from the German almanac; Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884); around 1850 (1850-00-00-1855-00-00);Jadwiga Jagiellonka (Polish princess and Lithuanian princess - 1457-1502), Jadwiga Jagiellonka (Polish princess and Lithuanian princess - 1457-1502) - iconography, Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884) - collections, collections, collections, Lesser, Emiljan Stanisław (Baron - 1847-1912), Lesser, Emiljan Stanisław (Baron - 1847-1912) - collection, Lesser, Wiktor Stanisław Zygmunt (Baron - 1853-1935), Lesser, Wiktor Stanisław Zygmunt (Baron - 1853-1935 ) - collection, gift (provenance), graphics (artist), German graphics, copies, copies of engravings, queens, personalities, Polish personalities, portraits, women's portraits

Caution, Jacques de Gheyn (II) (workshop or), after Jacques de Gheyn (II), 1591 - 1595 print Caution, in the shape of a woman with a mirror in the right hand, around which a snake wriggles. At the top of the show the word 'prvdentia' (caution). This print is part of a series of seven round performances of the virtues, each personified by a female figure with typical attributes, and with Latin inscription. Netherlands paper engraving Prudence, 'Prudentia'; 'Prudenza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues

Burgher's Wife of Zurich. Wenceslaus Hollar; Czech, 1607-1677. Date: 1649. Dimensions: 94 × 56 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark at sides and bottom). Etching on gray Asian paper. Origin: Bohemia. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Portrait of Maria Margherita Durini (1718-1755), Jac. Mecorus, Engraving on paper, Knee-length portrait in three-quarter view to right. A woman wearing a hat and an ovecoat, holding a book in her right hand, stands before a table, with a crucifix and hourglass, at right. In upper right corner, drapery., Italy, ca. 1760, Print, Print

Graham, Mary Ann .

Fatima according to the picture of Karl Bellay. A slice probably from a German magazine unknown, Bellay, Karl (n.n.)

Erato, anonymous, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1592 - 1667 print The sitting Erato, the muse of lyricism and love poetry, holds a globe and a passer in her hands. There are a book and a yardstick on her feet. paper engraving / drypoint Erato (one of the Muses); 'Erato' (Ripa)

Philopatrie, new character / representing the love of the homeland, / dedicated to true patriots (IT)

The print is part of a twelve-part series of prints depicting farmers, Woman with cloth over her arm, behind her stands a basket on the ground Marrij panvis, T'Leven Der Boeren (series title)., print maker: Salomon Savery, Pieter Jansz. Quast, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1630 - 1665, paper, etching, engraving, h 120 mm × w 84 mm

The Madonna with the rose

Two girls with flowers, fruits and a parrot, Johann Friedrich Bodecker, after Jan de Baen, 1670 - 1727 print Netherlands paper engraving ornamental birds: parrot. cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers. fruits

. Print middle numbered: 33.

Louis Marin Bonnet, after Jean Baptiste Deshays, Tête de Putiphar (Potiphar's Wife), 1770 1780 Tête de Putiphar (Potiphar's Wife)

Preliminary study for the portrait of Johanna Jacoba van Oosten de Bruyn. For the portrait of Johanna Jacoba van Oosten de Bruyn, for a portrait of the family of Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn.

Portrait of Marie Bras as Dame Catherine in La Dame des Belles Cousines M.me Bras Portraits of actors of Parisian theaters , print maker: Alexandre Marie Colin, (mentioned on object), printer: Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, (mentioned on object), publisher: Francisique Noël (et Cie.), (mentioned on object), Paris, 1823, paper, h 421 mm × w 289 mm

La Vedova Romana. Artist: Attributed to Pietro Bertelli (Italian, active Padua, ca. 1571-1621). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 15/16 x 6 1/4 in. (22.7 x 15.9 cm). Date: ca. 1580.See comment for 62.676.31.1. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of queen Bona Sforza, according to a woodcut from the work of Decius `De vetustatibus Polonorum` from the year 1521. Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), draughtsman, cartoonist

Woman Beggar Holding Alms, plate 20 from The Beggars. Jacques Callot; French, 1592-1635. Date: 1617-1627. Dimensions: 137 × 87 mm (plate); 141 × 92 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The First Wise Virgin. Martin Schongauer; German, c. 1450-1491. Date: 1450-1491. Dimensions: 121 × 87 mm. Engraving on paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Ver - Spring 1641 Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian A three-quarter length figure of a fashionable dressed woman standing next to a table covered with a cloth, on which there is a vase holding a display of flowers. A garden behind at right.. Ver - Spring 361575

Euterpe; The nine muses. A series of nine muses. Four rules Latin from Franco Estius in margin under print.

Copper engraving by Hendrick Goltzius from around 1592 depicting Thalia, the muse of comedy, showing figure, attributes, and composition.

French crown, Watteau, Jean Antoine, Paris, Audran, Benoît (II), La finette, Portrait of a lute player, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 287 mm, width 211 mm, 1698 - 1772-01-09, print maker, printmaker, 1708 - 1772, paper, papier, etching, etchings, French, 1684-10-10 - 1721-07-18, after, after a painting by, granter of privilege

Brabant Noblewoman. Wenceslaus Hollar; Czech, 1607-1677. Date: 1649. Dimensions: 90 × 56 mm (sheet, trimmed within plate mark). Etching on gray Asian paper. Origin: Bohemia. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Sibille van Samos, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1601 print Bust of the Sibille of Samos. In her left hand she holds a crown of thorns and an open book opened in her right hand. The performance is caught in a medallion with a border script in Latin. In the margin a six -line caption in Latin. Print from a series with the twelve Sibilles. Cologne paper engraving Samian Sibyl

Santi, Raffaello Stecher: Pontius, Paul Radier: Pontius, Paul Blade: Meyssens, JoannesDation: 1627/1657

. Bust by Jan Six in an oval, which is held by Minerva. On the right a putto, aaiend over the heads of the two dogs. In the background a curtain and the crowned city pavement of Amsterdam with fasces. On the base at which Minerva is seated three uning-filled weapons and an empty cartouche.

A Young Woman of Frascati ca. 1775-76 Jacques Louis David French. A Young Woman of Frascati. Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748-1825 Brussels). ca. 1775-76. Red chalk, framing lines in pen and brown ink, irregularly cut. Drawings

Jaël Sisera, Wallerant Vaillant, After Gerard de Lairese, 1658 - 1677 print Jaël killed the army leader Sisera. In her hand the hammer with which she hit a tent herring through his sleep. In the background is the lifeless body of Sisera. paper story of Jael and Sisera

Head of a Female Moor, Print made by Samuel Ireland, active 1760-died 1800, British, after William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, 1785, Etching and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Leopold Flameng / 'Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, Queen of Hungary', 1874, French School, Etching on paper, 270 mm x 181 mm, G03018. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. María Ana de Austria.

Mulier Belgica in Vestitu Domestico. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Wenceslaus Hollar.

Print, Mme la Princesse de Conti; 1955-15-32

Costume Design: Diana for a Ballet, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, Vertical rectangle. Shown standing, frontally. She carries an arrow in her right hand, and a bow in her left one. She wears a cloak with a tail. A crescent is over her head. 'Folliame' is written twice in the right sleeve, and something illegible which has been partially struck out: 'o...carna.' Written in the sketch: 'incoronato' (struck out), and: '...che da folliame'., Florence, Italy, 17th century, theater, Drawing, Drawing

The Four Seasons, 1641. Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677). Etching;

A Priestess of Bacchus (Anne Catley), John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812, British, after John Downman, 1750-1824, British, c. 1779, Mezzotint, Sheet: 10 x 13 7/8in. (25.4 x 35.2cm)

Delilah Cutting Samson's Hair Claude Mellan French. Delilah Cutting Samson's Hair 391753

Hendrik Goltzius (Dutch, 1558-1617), Urania, probably 1592, engraving

Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland Publisher: Cock, Hieronymus Sport: Antwerp

Portrait of a Florentine Lady. Artist: Circle of Justus Sustermans (Flemish, Antwerp 1597-1681 Florence). Dimensions: 14 1/16 x 8 3/8 in. (35.7 x 21.3 cm). Date: after 1620. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Luise, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Eraser: Buchhorn, Ludwigdatening: 1810/1856

Woman with sheet music, John de Groot (II), After Eglon van der Neer, 1698 - 1776 print A woman, with half -bare bosom, points to a music magazine. She wears pearls in the ears. Northern Netherlands paper notation of music. pearl; pearl necklace (+ women's clothes)

Temperance, in the guise of a woman pouring water from a jug into a glass. At the top of the representation the word 'TEMPERANTIA. (fortitude). This print is part of a series of seven circular representations of the virtues, each personified by a female figure with typical attributes, and with Latin inscription, and with Latin inscription., Temperance Temperantia The Virtues (series title), print maker: Jacob de Gheyn (II), (workshop of), print maker: Zacharias Dolendo, (possibly), Jacob de Gheyn (II), Netherlands, 1591 - 1595, paper, engraving, d 150 mm

Wenceslaus Hollar, Mulier Argentinensis, 1642 Mulier Argentinensis

Anna Dorothea, Countess of Salm-Kyrburg.

Northern Netherlands, Frisius, Simon, Twelve Sibyls, S: Egyptica, Sibyl of Egypt, verso lower left - stamped, half-length, reading her book., print, prints, height 149 mm, width 113 mm, 1575 - 1628, print maker, printmaker, 1595 - 1628, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching

April / Avril June 24, 1784 Robert Dighton the Elder British. April / Avril 343742

Vichy-Chamrond, Marie de.

Laura, Petrarch's muse. Perhaps Laura de Noves, c.13101348, wife of Count Hugues de Sade. Lavra. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

Tiburtine Sibille, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1601

Netherlands, Amerom, Hendrik Jan van, Bedelaarster, verso middle - stamped, print, prints, height 114 mm, width 110 mm, 1776 - 1833-06-05, print maker, printmaker, 1786 - 1833, fourth quarter 18th century, first quarter 19th century, second quarter 19th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings

A Feder drawing by Sébastien Le Clerc showing Edeli screws from England with brown, gray, and red lavations, mounted on a leaf with a pierced decorative strip, created 1650-1664.

Forced auction according to the image of Gabriel Von Max. A slice probably from a German magazine unknown, Max, Gabriel Cornelius von (1840 1915)

. Isabella van Castile, for feet. From: La Galerie des Femmes Fortes, van Lepère Le Moyne, Ed. By P. Mariette in 1647. In the background a tent with sleeping man. (engraved by Abraham Bosse)

Marches Pesaro Fossombrone Museo Civico A. Vernarecci1. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Sculpture fragments; early Christian sarcofagi. Post-medieval: Architecture, begun in the 13th century and remodeled in the 15th century; Renaissance sculpture fragments; marble bust of Vernarecci; model of Federico da Montefeltro's Palazzo della Corte Alta Antiquities: Fragments of capitals and relief carvings (Roman and possibly earlier); portrait busts (Julio-Claudian and Hadrianic) Object Notes: Museum is part of the Corte Alta. General Notes: Counts are approximate since many views have multiple objects. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Bar

Mr John Quick in drag in the character of Alderman Smuggler in George Farquhars The Constant Couple. John Quick was an English actor, known for comic parts. 1748-1831. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bells British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1777.

A bacchante wearing a flowing drapery, looking down, right arm bent and left arm outstretched, set against a black background inside a rectangular frame. Artist: Engraved by Antonio Ricciani (Italian, Rome 1775/76-1847 Naples); Intermediary draughtsman Luigi Agricola (Italian, born ca. 1750). Dimensions: Sheet: 16 5/16 × 12 3/8 in. (41.4 × 31.5 cm)Plate: 13 × 9 13/16 in. (33 × 25 cm). Publisher: Agapito Franzetti (Italian, active Rome, last quarter 18th century-first quarter 19th century). Date: ca. 1795-1847.From a series of engravings depicting wall paintings from Herculaneum, made by various engravers and intermediary draughtsman, all pulblished by Agapito Franzetti. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Love My Cat, Girl with a Cat, c. 1760, Germany, painting by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760), Love Me, Love My Cat. Girl with a Cat, a painting of Philippe Mercier (1689-1760), Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original, Europe

Justice, Hieronymus Wierix, After Jan van der Straet, 1563 - Before 1612 print Bust of the female personification of justice. In one hand she holds a scale, a sword in her other hand. The show is caught in a cartouche, surrounded by putti. In the context in the margin a two -way Bible quote from Spr. 16 in Latin. Antwerp paper engraving Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues

Saint Pepin I and his daughter, Saint Begga ca. 1645-72 Franciscus Van Den Steen. Saint Pepin I and his daughter, Saint Begga. Franciscus Van Den Steen (Antwerp ca. 1625-1672 Vienna). ca. 1645-72. Engraving. Frans van den Wyngaerde (Flemish, Antwerp 1614-1679 Antwerp). Prints

Vidua Senensis in Hetruria (Widow of Siena in Tuscany) from H Weigel's Trachtenbuch, plate 51 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century 1577 Switzerland. Woodcut on paper . Jost Amman

Artist: Cornelis Boel, Flemish, 1576-1621, Saint Catherine ofAlexandria, Engraving, sheet: 21.3 × 15 cm (8 3/8 × 5 7/8in.), Made in Flanders, Flemish, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

A Lady of the English Court from "Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus" by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1643; ; Black and White Illustration;

A delicate admonition according to the image of Rudolf EPPA. A clip from a German magazine unknown, Epp, Rudolf (1834 1910)

Mademoiselle Auretti Unidentified ballet. Prints. 1745 - 1746. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Auretti, Anne, 18th cent, Ballet , England , 18th century

Le Grand Seigneur, Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660-1737, Dutch, undated, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 10 1/16 × 7 3/16 inches (25.5 × 18.2 cm) and Image: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm), costume, drapery, embroidery, feathers, fur, gesture, grand seigneur, headdress, jewelry, jewels, man, nobility, portrait, robe, sultan, tassels, turban, Turkish

Gyldenløve, Graph Von Samsøe, Christian.

Robert Williams, Active 1680-1704, Madam Hewse (Margaret Hughes). Mezzotint.

Portrait of a woman, Francesco Bartolozzi, After Benjamin West, 1774 print Portrait of a woman (a Vestal Virgin) In an oval. London paper etching historical persons. Vestal virgin(s)

Portrait of the Italian artist Raphael, Portrait of Raphael Portraits of Italian artists , print maker: Isaac Lodewijk la Fargue van Nieuwland, (mentioned on object), 1752, paper, etching, h 87 mm - w 58 mm

March, Anne Françoise Hippolyte.

Minerva in her Study, Ferdinand Bol, c. 1636 drawing Amsterdam paper. ink pen / brush (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena)

Portrait of Jacob Spex, Jacob Houbraken, After Aert Schouman, in or Before 1755 print Portrait of Jacob Spex in an oval medallion that is held by a muse with a laurel wreath on the head. She also holds, sitting on an elevation, a winch and a sheet of paper. To the right of the portrait other musical instruments and a curtain in the background. Amsterdam paper engraving historical persons

December, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Published by Robert Sayer, 1725-1794, British, 1767, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 17 × 10 7/8 inches (43.2 × 27.6 cm), Plate: 14 × 9 7/8 inches (35.6 × 25.1 cm), and Image: 12 3/8 × 9 7/8 inches (31.4 × 25.1 cm)

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471 - 1528), The Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels, 1518, engraving

A knight in the costume of the Order of the Garter. Etching.

Machtelt van Zuylene van Nyevelt.

Portrait of Anna Sophia Wichmannshausen, Martin Bernigeroth, 1714 - 1733 print Allegorical representation with the portrait of Anna Sophia Wichmannshausen on a burial monument. In the foreground a sitting woman with a bird on a branch next to her. A putto has opened a book with a psalm on her lap. There is a burnt -out torch under his left foot. A row of urns in the background. Leipzig paper etching / engraving historical persons - BB - woman. armorial bearing, heraldry. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. grave-building, monumental tomb. torch (+ extinguishing; extinguished light, lamp, candle). birds. urn

Etching and aquatint by Giovanni David from 1775 titled 'This Lenda', showing a narrative scene with figures and landscape elements.

The Model and the Figure (La sculpture monumentale). Dated: 1847/1856. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: PAUL GAVARNI.

Head of woman with cloth draped around her head, Gilles Demarteau, After François Boucher, 1732 - 1776 print Paris paper etching covering the head, drawing drapery over the face

Paris, Basan, Pierre François, Aubert, Louis, France, La vieille, Oude vrouw aan tafel, print, prent, prints, prenten, height 340 mm, width 223 mm, French, 1723-10-23 - 1797-01-12, print maker, printmaker, 1740 - 1797, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

James Watson after Gabriel Metsu, The Deshabille, 1776 The Deshabille

Study of a Woman (Rodugune) Turned toward the Left; Charles-Antoine Coypel, French, 1694 - 1752; about 1749; Black and white chalk on blue-gray paper; squared in black chalk; 43.8 x 32.9 cm (17 1/4 x 12 15/16 in.)

'Saint Elisabeth of Portugal', ca. 1635, Spanish Baroque, Oil on canvas, 184 cm x 98 cm, P01239. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. SANTA CASILDA. SANTA ISABEL DE PORTUGAL.

Print from Drawing Book. Dated: c. 1610/1620. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Luca Ciamberlano.

Music (Musica); The seven liberal arts. Musica plays on a virginal and sings it. A man and a woman sing by candlelight from a music book. Musical instruments hang on the wall. With a caption in Latin by C. Schonaeus.

Jeanne d'Arc (* presumably 1412, 30 May 1431), also Jehanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc or the Maid of Orleans, is a French national heroine, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Margarete, Markgräfin of Baden.

Mama Ana Huarque. Unknown

Girl with a Mask. Dated: 1820. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: VIVANT DENON.

A woman is sitting on a chair making bobbin lace on a lace pillow. Engraving by A. H. Payne after G. Metsu.

Esterházy-Galantha, Franziska Antonia Gräfin.

Photo production of the painting 'Anna van Austria (1601-1666). Wife of Lodewijk XIII, king of France 'by Peter Paul Rubens; Musée d'Amsterdam. P. P. Rubens. - Portrait d'Anne d'Autriche .. Part of LeporelloAlbum with photo productions from paintings from the Rijksmuseum.

Buste van Maria, in Ovaal, Jacob Matham, After Hendrick Goltzius, 1588 - 1602 print Maria in an oval with edge in Latin. Print from a series of three prints with Bustes from Christ, Maria and John the Evangelist. Haarlem paper engraving 'portraits' of Mary

Anne Boleyn, Illustration from the Book, "John Cassels Illustrated History of England, Volume II", text by William Howitt, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1858

Colored pen drawing by an anonymous artist from 1420-1430 depicting Solomon seated on a throne. Emphasizes figure, posture, and royal setting.

Portrait of a Young Woman, Half Length, Turned to the Left. Langeau (active ca. 1590 - ca. 1610). Red, black and white chalk. 43.9 x 28.3cm.

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