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The detail represents Prudence.
This tomb is the first documented work by Colombe. It was executed, on a design by Jean Perréal, by Colombe and his assistants Regnault, Jean de Chartres and Jerome Pacherot de Fiesole. The four figures of Virtues at the corners are an Italian theme. Two faces and a mirror, attributes in the Italian manner, characterize Prudence. A trace of the Gothic style remains in the idealization of the faces and in the way the draperies are handled in broad, harmonious folds. The sculptors' preoccupations were on the verge of becoming purely aesthetic.
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