(b. 1484/85, Schwäbisch-Gmünd, d. 1545, Strasbourg)
Prudence
1529
Oil on pine panel, 83 x 36 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
There is a companion-piece of this allegorical nude, the Music, also in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Music, with the white cat, symbolizes the phlegmatic temperament, while Prudence, with a mirror and stag symbolizes melancholy.
