Lorenzo Lotto (artist) Italian, c. 1480 - 1556/1557 Allegory of Virtue and Vice, 1505 oil on panel overall: 56.5 x 42.2 cm (22 1/4 x 16 5/8 in.) framed: 64.3 x 51.8 x 6.4 cm (25 5/16 x 20 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1939.1.156 On View

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Bernardo de' Rossi, Bishop of Treviso from 1505 until 1510.[1] Probably Palazzo Farnese, Parma. Antonio Bertioli, Parma, by 1791 until at least 1803. Giacomo Gritti, Bergamo, by c. 1880. (sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 May 1934, no. 129); purchased by Martin Asscher, London.[2] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1935 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The painting bears his coat-of-arms.

[2] According to Kress files in NGA curatorial records.

[3] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:278.

Associated Names

• Asscher, Martin
• Bertioli, Antonio
• Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
• Gritti, Giacomo
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K303)
• Palazzo Farnese
• Rossi, Bishop of Treviso, Bernardo de'
• Sotheby's

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