The Choice between Virtue and Passion

The Choice between Virtue and Passion

SK-A-3445

De keuze tussen deugd en hartstocht. Een jongen keert zich af van de uitgestoken hand van een verlokkelijke jonge vrouw met losse bovenkleding links naar een staande vrouw rechts. Op de achtergrond de portico van een tempel.

painter: follower of Paolo Veronese

1590 - 1680

oil on canvas

• height 90 cm x width 140 cm
• depth 5.5 cm

J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam

bequest 1941

Public domain

…; from the dealer J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, fl. 14,000, to Julius Wilhelm Edwin vom Rath (1863-1940), Amsterdam, 1937;{Note RMA.} by whom bequeathed, with 305 other objects, to the museum, 1941

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