Virtue Crowned by Honor

1670–76

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper
Dimensions: 5 7/8 x 5 1/4in. (14.9 x 13.3cm)
Collection no.: 61.169
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Carlo Maratta. Virtue Crowned by Honor. Carlo Maratta; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1961. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Virtue Crowned by Honor — Carlo Maratta. 1670–76.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper. Dimensions: 5 7/8 x 5 1/4in. (14.9 x 13.3cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1961.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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