Art, literature & history
Virtues Crowning the Bust of Canova
1812
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes over graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 45.88 × 68.58 cm (18 1/16 × 27 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2023.49.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Michele Sangiorgi. Virtues Crowning the Bust of Canova. Michele Sangiorgi; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Helena E. M. Gunnarsson Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Virtues Crowning the Bust of Canova — Michele Sangiorgi. 1812.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes over graphite on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 45.88 × 68.58 cm (18 1/16 × 27 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2023.49.1. The Helena E. M. Gunnarsson Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.