Tarquin and Lucretia by Tintoretto
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Tarquin and Lucretia

Tintoretto · 1578–80

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Classics of the Nude, 1939, no. 10.
  • New York World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture, 1300–1800, 1939, no. 378.
  • San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, "Seven Centuries of Painting," 1939–40, no. Y-19.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs, February 7– March 7, 1940, no. 63; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 28 May–23 June, 1940, no. 37; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 15– September 15, 1940, no. 4.
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Painting, 1950–51, no. 24.
  • New York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings . . . for the Benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., 1955, no. 16.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art,"Venetian Tradition, 1956, no. 49.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.
  • Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), January 1-April 1, 2007, cat. 42.
  • Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, March 15, 2009-August 16, 2009, cat. 46; Paris, Musee du Louvre, Sept 14, 2009-January 4, 2010.
  • Venice, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Jacopo Tintoretto and the 500th anniversary of his birth, September 1 - December 30 2018, fig. 177; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, March 3 - June 30, 2019.

Literature

Published references

  • "Found in France: The New Veronese, Vivarini, and Tintoretto," Illustrated London News (4 December 1937), p. 1015.
  • Alfred M. Frankfurter, "The Classic Nude: 1460–1905," Art News 37, no. 29 (1939), cover ill.
  • Pictures on Exhibit 12, no. 4 (1940), pp. 37–38.
  • Erich von der Bercken, Die Gemälde des Jacopo Tintoretto (Munich, 1942), p. 119, no. 265, figs. 12–14.
  • Hans Tietze, Tintoretto: The Paintings and Drawings (London, 1948), p. 357, fig. 285.
  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, La giovinezza del Tintoretto (Milan, 1950), p. 151.
  • Frederick A. Sweet, "Tintoretto and El Greco," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44 (1950), pp. 22–23 (detail ill., cover ill.).
  • Daniel Catton Rich, "The Windy City, Storm Center of Many Contemporary Art Movements," Art Digest 26, 3 (1951), p. 29 (ill.).
  • Frederick A. Sweet, "La pittura italiana all'Art Institute di Chicago," Le vie del mondo: Rivista mensile del Touring Club Italiano 15 (1953), pp. 698–99 (ill.).
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School (London, 1957), vol. 1, p. 171, vol. 2, pl. 1291.
  • R. Pedrazzi Tozzi, "La maturità di Domenico Tintoretto in alcune telle ritenute di Jacopo," Arte antica e moderna 12 (1960), p. 388.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 449–50.

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