Virtue Overcoming Vice

Datesecond half of the 16th century

MediumBronze

Dimensions9 9/16 x 4 1/4 in. (24.3 x 10.8 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1916.2.43

Collection History

Lady Amelius Beauclerk, London. Her sale, February 17, 1911, Christie’s, Lot 28, sold for £3,045 to Jacques Seligmann, Paris. J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York. Duveen.12 Frick, 1916.

Source: Sculpture in The Frick Collection: Italian. Volume III. New York: The Frick Collection, 1970.

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