Saint Lucretia

c. 1520

Dosso Dossi

Artist, Ferrarese, active 1512 - 1542

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 25

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (original panel): 51.8 x 40.7 x 1.2 cm (20 3/8 x 16 x 1/2 in.)
    overall (including cradle): 53.3 x 41.9 x 3.7 cm (21 x 16 1/2 x 1 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.388

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este, Duca di Ferrara. Cardinal Antonio Barberini [d.1671], Rome;[1] by inheritance to Maffeo Barberini [d.1685], Principe di Palestrina, Rome;[2] Ugo Ferraguti [1885-1938], Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome; (Ferraguti sale, Galleria Tavazzi, Rome, 12-24 December 1932, no. 390). Dr. A. Porcella, Rome, by 1933.[3] (Jacob M. Heimann, New York); sold 1938 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] Recorded in posthumous inventories of 1671 and 1672.
[2] Recorded in inventories of post-1672 and posthumous inventory of 1686.
[3] Lent by Porcella to 1933 exhibition in Ferrara.
[4] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1869.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1933

  • Pitture Ferrarese del Rinascimento, Ferrara, 1933, no. 197, repro.

1998

  • Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara, Exhibit Halls, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1998-1999, no. 30a, repro. (shown only in New York and Los Angeles).

2002

  • Lucrezia Borgia, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara, 2002, no. 32, repro.

Bibliography

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 59, no. 481.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 249, repro. 99.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 167, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 43.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 36, repro.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 74, fig. 178.

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:114.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 110, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:162-164; 2:pl. 117.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 133, repro.

2007

  • Fumagalli, Elena. “Sul collezionismo di dipinti ferraresi a Roma nel Seicento: riflessioni e aggiunte.” In Alessandro Ballarin, ed. Il Camerino delle Pitture di Alfonso I. 6: Dosso Dossi e La Pittura a Ferrara negli anni Del Ducato di Alfonso I. Atti del Convegno di Studio, Padova, Palazzo del Bo, 9-11 maggio 2001. Padua, 2007: 184 n. 91.

Inscriptions

center right on parapet: S . LVCRETIA

Wikidata ID

Q20175742

You may be interested in

Loading Results