Lucas van LEYDEN (1494-1533)

Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) - Prudencia / Description: From the series of the Virtues: Prudence (Prudentia); a nude allegorical figure of prudence sits facing right on a stone ledge, holding calipers in her right hand and a mirror in the left with her right foot up on a book; an angel at upper right holds a halo over her head. Lettered with the letter "L" and "PRUDENTIA" at lower right and the date 1530 at upper left. The fourth in a series of seven plates of the Virtues. This is one of the two plates that bears the date 1530. Previously in the FÜRSTLICH WALDBURG WOLFEGG'sches KUPFERSTICHKABINETT (collection stamp). An impression with the same watermark as Fortitude, from the same series in the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam (Gothic P with flower) / Dimensions: 16,30 x 10,70 cm A good impression on laid paper with Gothic P with flower watermark. Full plate border and tread margins. In good condition with small faded stain on the left leg of the woman, otherwise in fine condition. / Literature: Nagler Künstlerlexikon 20 Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (324.I) -- Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (235.53.20) ---After the painting by Rubens in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, inv.no.P01691 (Rooses 838). Engraving