Lucretia

Title

Lucretia

[cda 2015]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood	[cda 2015]
Lime or alder wood	[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 662, No. 578]

The painting depicts Lucretia as a seated half-length figure in contemporary dress and with contemporary accessories.

Lucretia's head is inclined slightly to the left, but her gaze is directed at the viewer. Her hair is pinned up. She wears a white undergarment revealing her breast and a fur-trimmed gown covers her

The painting depicts Lucretia as a seated half-length figure in contemporary dress and with contemporary accessories.

Lucretia's head is inclined slightly to the left, but her gaze is directed at the viewer. Her hair is pinned up. She wears a white undergarment revealing her breast and a fur-trimmed gown covers her shoulders. Her left hand rest in her lap and in her right hand she holds the dagger, which is raised slightly. She wears a chain with a pendant and two large linked chains around her neck. The background is dark.

[Herrschaft, cda 2012]

According to the legend Lucretia lived in the 6th century BC and was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the roman Collatinus. The roman King's son - Sextus Tarquinius fell in love with her. During a stay in her house Sextus threatened to kill her and shame her honour if she did not surrender to him. After the rape Lucretia had her father and husband vow vengeance and then she stabbed herself. The event led to an uprising in which the royal family was overthrown and the Roman Empire became a Republic.

Depictions of Lucretia who was seen as the epitomy of female virtue, chastity, fidelity and honour enjoyed great popularity, particularly in the 16th century.

[Literature: Bierende 2002, Follak 2002, Livius 1909]

Attribution: Hans Döring

Attribution

Hans Döring

[Emmendörffer 1998, 206][Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 662, No. 578]

Production date: 1514

Production date

1514

[dated]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 40.5 x 33 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 40.5 x 33 cm
[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 662, No. 578]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia in the upper area: 'H.D.M.' and date '1514'

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia in the upper area: 'H.D.M.' and date '1514'

Inscriptions and Labels: Yellow inscription in the upper area:
'DVM VI TARQUINI PATITVR LVCRECIA STVPRVM PERFORAT EN FERRO PECTORA CASTA TRVCI'
(After …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

Yellow inscription in the upper area:
'DVM VI TARQUINI PATITVR LVCRECIA STVPRVM PERFORAT EN FERRO PECTORA CASTA TRVCI'
(After Lucretia was raped by Tarquinius, she stabbed herself, see here the innocent breast with the terrible dagger)
[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 662, No. 578]

Owner: Museum Wiesbaden
Repository: Museum Wiesbaden
Location: Wiesbaden

CDA ID: DE_MW_M26
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_MW_M26/

Exhibitions

Basel 1974, Cat.-No. 578

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Cat. Coburg 2018

115

under no. 20

Fig. 5

Author	Klaus Weschenfelder
Title	Cranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	2018

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Teget-Welz 2018

224

Author	Manuel Teget-Welz
Title	Von Gotha in die Ganze Welt. Die Fürstenserie des Monogrammisten IS
Publication	in Klaus Weschenfelder, ed., Cranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	2018
Pages	209-228

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Heydenreich 2007 A

282

Fig. 219

Author	Gunnar Heydenreich
Title	Lucas Cranach the Elder
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Year of Publication	2007
Link	https://lucascranach.org/application/files/6116/2097/3099/Heydenreich_2007_Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder.pdf

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Emmendörffer 1998

206, 207

Fig. 22.3

Author	Christoph Emmendörffer
Title	Die selbständigen Cranachschüler
Publication	in Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, eds., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	1998
Pages	203-228

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Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976

661-663

No. 578

Fig. 322b

Author	Dieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
Title	Lukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume	1, 2
Place of Publication	Basel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1974
Link	http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522

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Schade 1974

46, 69

Author	Werner Schade
Title	Die Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of Publication	Dresden
Year of Publication	1974
Link	http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974

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Cat. Wiesbaden 1937

Author	Hermann Voss
Title	Amtlicher Katalog der Gemäldegalerie Wiesbaden. Nassauisches Landesmuseum
Place of Publication	Wiesbaden
Year of Publication	1937

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Ehlers 1919

2-4, 85

Fig. 1

Author	Ernst Heinrich Ehlers
Title	Hans Döring. Ein hessischer Maler des 16. Jahrhunderts
Place of Publication	Darmstadt
Year of Publication	1919

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Research History / Discussion

This painting is one of many copies after a Lucretia by Lucas Cranach the Elder, which was created about 1510-13 and is now in a private collection in Switzerland (FR042).

[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 661f., No. 576]

Lucretia, 1514

Images

Technical studies

Support

- the wood appears to be lime

- the reverse is smooth with no marks from a plane

- the reverse of the panel exhibits a rebate: at the sides 0.8 cm in width, at the bottom 0.6 cm in width, the top edge has been trimmed by the width of the rebate

[Heydenreich, examined in 2001]

Ground and Imprimatura

- pink coloured imprimatura consisting of lead white and vermilion

Versions

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