# Time Witnessing the Triumph of Honour, Integrity, and Prudence over Vice

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## Artwork

- Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, French](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-french-r2b942644e40f91>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Bronze, height 76 cm

## Commentary

This typically Rococo bronze has a unique explanatory inscription on the scroll, which reads \(in English translation\): Prudence, Honour, and exact Probability join together in this faithful portrait and, despite troubled Vice who mutters and twitches in his obscurity, by the hands of Time pass their true model to wise Posterity.

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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)