Tarquin and Lucretia, c. 1578/80
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Italian, 1518-1594
Oil on canvas
68 7/8 × 59 5/8 in. (175 × 151.5 cm)
Provenance
Possibly Antonio Tronsarelli, Rome (died 1601) [“Un quadro grande in tela colorito a olio di Tarquinio quando Viola Lucretia di mano del Tentoretto (sic)”; see Matteo Lafranconi, “Antonio Tronsarelli: A Roman collector of the late sixteenth century,” Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), p. 545, no. (5)]. Private collection, France [according to Illustrated London News, 4 December 1937]. Robert Lebel, Paris, by 1937 [Illustrated London News, 4 December 1937]. Richard Goetz, Paris and New York, by 1939 [1939 Knoedler exh. cat.]. Sold by E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1949.
Art Institute Purchase Fund
The Art Institute of Chicago
