Monogrammist IB

The Virtues - Patience

Engraving, ca. 1523-30

Seated in profile to right, pointing with her right hand to a lamb on the floor in front of her; from a series of seven engravings with female personifications sitting with their respective attributes in interiors with views of landscapes through windows.

Signed with monogram at lower right. Lettered at upper right: 'PATIENTIA'

re. British Museum Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.308.27)

Doublet stamp of the Albertina Museum in Vienna on the reverse

Monogrammist IB was active in Nuremberg for a few years in the 1520s and left behind a few dozen extremely accomplished engravings. No further facts about this significant German Renaissance artist have so far come to light, and it is likely enough that no biographical information has survived.