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Prudence

Franco/Flemish School

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Prudence

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As in the painting 'Temperance', Prudence appears in a lavish outdoor setting with antique references, including a temple with what appear to be two caryatids. Her traditional attributes are a mirror, symbolising truth, and a snake, the symbol of wisdom. This painting, together with 'Charity', 'Faith', 'Justice', 'Fortitude' and 'Temperance', is from a series of the seven Virtues (Hope is missing), probably painted by a North European artist working in England. Groups of Virtues, or of the Liberal Arts, were popular elements in the decoration of libraries. The allegorical figures derive from the 'Iconologia' of Cesare Ripa with variations from other print sources. 'Temperance' and 'Prudence' are more Italianate in taste than the others in the series and may have been by a different artist in the same workshop.

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Title

Prudence

Date

late 17th C

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 122.5 x W 100 cm

Accession number

WA1845.36

Acquisition method

Acquired, 1845

Work type

Painting

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