Temperance or Continence 1600 - 1615

"Temperance or Continence" is a small glazed earthenware sculpture created by Claude Beaulat sometime between 1600 and 1615. The sculpture, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicts a standing figure with a crown and a cup in her hands, representing the virtue of temperance. The work, while small in scale, showcases the artist's skill in capturing the subject's form and expressing the concept of temperance through the figure's posture and the objects she holds.