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.
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 14, № 1
Titian
Tarquin and Lucretia, life-size, full-length
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
6ft 3in x 4ft 3in (190.5 x 129.5cm)
Medium:
canvas
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
wooden partly-gilded frame
Provenance:
Earl of Arundel
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
Notes:
defaced
Location:
Original Manuscript page number:
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 17
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51