Charity, from "The Seven Virtues"

1530

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving; first state
Dimensions: sheet: 6 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (16 x 11 cm)
Collection no.: 57.658.8
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Lucas van Leyden. Charity, from "The Seven Virtues". Lucas van Leyden; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957. 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

Charity, from "The Seven Virtues" — Lucas van Leyden. 1530.

Medium: Engraving; first state. Dimensions: sheet: 6 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (16 x 11 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957.

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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