Virtue Attacked by Vice

Artists

Dimensions

21.7 x 17.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Provenance

L. Lapeyrière; his sale, Me. Lacoste, Paris, April 14, 1817, no. 98 (as "la Vertu aux prises avec le Vice" and "la Raison parle, le Plaisir entraîne"; Fr 261); purchased at that sale by (?) Sallé; Senator Justynian Karnicki, Warsaw (d. before 1881; his mark, Lugt 1921, no. 1562, on old mounts; see fig. 128); Galerie Adolphe Le Goupy, Paris, 1924; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, June 1928 (Fr 40,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.