This allegory shows a personification of Virtue, a central concept in the 17th century, in her blue mantle, leading a male figure, draped in a contrasting red, up into the heavens and crowning him with a laurel wreath. They are accompanied by a pair of genii holding a banner with the title and the painter’s signature. Intended for the king’s audience chamber at Ulriksdal, the work summed up the lessons Ehrenstrahl had learnt from contemporary Italian Baroque painting.