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Dosso Dossi

Saint Lucretia, c. 1520

Medium

oil on panel

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.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.388

Artists / Makers

Dosso Dossi (artist) Ferrarese, active 1512 - 1542

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Inscription

center right on parapet: S . LVCRETIA

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

Barberini, Antonio, Cardinal
Barberini, Maffeo, Prince
Este, Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso I d'
Ferraguti, Ugo
Galleria Tavazzi
Heimann, Jacob M.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Porcella, A., Dr.

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

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

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

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.