Temperance, from the series The Virtues

1530

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving; first state
Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 cm)
Collection no.: 62.635.113
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Lucas van Leyden. Temperance, from the series The Virtues. Lucas van Leyden; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962. 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

Temperance, from the series The Virtues — Lucas van Leyden. 1530.

Medium: Engraving; first state. Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 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, 1962.

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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