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Lorenzo Lotto
Allegory of Virtue and Vice
K303
199
1505
oil on panel
Painting
56.5 x 42.2 cm (22 1/4 x 16 5/8 in)
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.
1939.1.156
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