Year 1666 (1666) Artist Rembrandt Created 1666 Genre Portrait | Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 1.05 m x 92 cm Media Oil paint Periods Baroque, Dutch Golden Age | |
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Catalogue Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI: #314 Location Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Similar Rembrandt artwork, Baroque artwork, Portraits | ||
Lucretia is a 1666 history painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Painting
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote:"220. LUCRETIA. Dut. 115 ; Wb. 267. She has a dagger in her right hand, and holds a cord in her left hand. "Of nobler composition and greater breadth of light than is usual in Rembrandt ; at the same time the treatment is of singular breadth and spirit" (Waagen). Dated 1666. In the Wombwell collection, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 308).
220a. Lucretia with the Dagger. The sitter is a genuine Dutch-woman, but the expression of pain is well rendered not only in the features but also in the pale colour. Admirably painted. Mentioned by Waagen, iv. 477. In the Radziwill collection, according to the Burdon catalogue. Sales. London, 1853 (Burdon). W. W. Burdon of Newcastle, London, 1862 (bought in)."
According to the RKD both catalog number 220 and 220a refer to the same painting, in the collections of John Calvert Wombwell and Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł.
Two years earlier Rembrandt made another painting of Lucretia, depicting the moment before she stabs herself: