Saint Lucretia

oil on panel overall (original panel): 51.8 x 40.7 x 1.2 cm (20 3/8 x 16 x 1/2 in.) overall (including cradle): 53.3 x 41.9 x 3.7 cm (21 x 16 1/2 x 1 7/16 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection Provenance: Probably commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este, Duca di Ferrara. Cardinal Antonio Barberini [d.1671], Rome;[1] by inheritance to Maffeo Barberini [d.1685], Principe di Palestrina, Rome;[2] Ugo Ferraguti [1885-1938], Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome; (Ferraguti sale, Galleria Tavazzi, Rome, 12-24 December 1932, no. 390). Dr. A. Porcella, Rome, by 1933.[3] (Jacob M. Heimann, New York); sold 1938 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] Recorded in posthumous inventories of 1671