Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Lucretia Threatened by Tarquin
c. 1700195 x 172 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 467
Provenance
Possibly Palazzo Barbazza, Bologna, by 1739 until at least the 1760s
probably Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen (1738 1822), Bratislava, Brussels, and Vienna, by 1768 (as by Mattia Preti)
with Guillaume Verbelen, Brussels
his sale, Brussels, 8 October 1833, nr. 148, as Mattia Preti
J.J. Chapuis (died 1865), Brussels
his sale, De Donker and Vergote, Brussels, 4 December 1865 and days following, nr. 320, as by Mattia Preti
with M.A. Almas, Paris, 1937
with Le Bouheler, Paris
purchased 1938 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1952 to NGA
Other works by Giuseppe Maria Crespi
The Death of St. Joseph
c. 1712
c. 1712
Young Woman Tuning her Lute
c. 1700-05
c. 1700-05
Portrait of Count Fulvio Grati
Interior with a Peasant Family
Peasant with a Donkey