Lucretia

Lucretia

Title

Lucretia

[Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/studio-of-lucas-cranach-i-lucretia-5586286-details.aspx; accessed 22 Nov 2017]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/studio-of-lucas-cranach-i-lucretia-5586286-details.aspx; accessed 22 Nov 2017]

The classical heroine is represented as a three-quarter length figure, facing left against a dark background. Beneath the fur-trimmed cloak that slides from her shoulders Lucretia is naked. In her raised right hand she holds a dagger with which she has already injured herself.

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/studio-of-lucas-cranach-i-lucretia-5586286-details.aspx; accessed 22 Nov 2017]

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[letter D. Koepplin in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2001]

Wolfgang Krodel the Elder

'possibly Wolfgang Krodel' [letter-correspondence D. Koepplin with the former owner, in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2006]

Production date
about 1520 - 1530

Production date

about 1520 - 1530

[cda 2017]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 42.9 x 27 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 42.9 x 27 cm

  • [Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/studio-of-lucas-cranach-i-lucretia-5586286-details.aspx; accessed 22 Nov 2017]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P181
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P181/

Provenance

  • 2006 private collection, Vienna
    [letter of correspondence from D. Koepplin to the former owner in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2006]
  • 28 April 2006 at Christie's London, lot 34
  • 4 July 2012 at Christie's London, lot 120
    [Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/studio-of-lucas-cranach-i-lucretia-5586286-details.aspx; accessed 22 Nov 2017]
  • Lucretia, about 1520 - 1530

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<author's name>, 'Lucretia', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P181/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
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'Lucretia', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P181/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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