Saint Lucretia
Saint Lucretia
- Artist
- Dosso Dossi
- Artist Dates
- active 1512-1542
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Lucretia
- Date
- c. 1520
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- original panel: 51.8 x 40.7 x 1.2 cm 20 3/8 x 16 x 1/2 in
- K Number
- K1129
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1939.1.388
- 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; 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.