Tarquin and Lucretia

This violent work, attributed in the inventory to Titian, depicts one of early Rome’s founding episodes in flagrante. It was given to Charles I by the Earl of Arundel along with painting no. 2 in this room (Titian’s Jacopo Pesaro).

Van der Doort recorded the Tarquin and Lucretia as defaced or damaged and the work is now considered the product of Titian and his workshop, with another version in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Titian

Tarquin and Lucretia (life-size)

Walpole Society reference (1972): 
WS 70, №30
Appraisal: 
70-0-0
Sold to: 
Col Webb
Sale date: 
25/10/1649
Identification certainty: 
Identified