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 LUCRETIA, Alexandre Cabanel, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 4 ft. Lucretia, seated at her loom, is surprised at the return of Sextus Tarquinius, who, leaning upon the back of her chair, asks her hospitality.—Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 27.

By Albrecht Dürer, Munich Gallery; wood, H. 5 ft. 2 in. × 2 ft. 4 in.; signed, dated 1518. Lucretia, nude, life-size, stands at the foot of a bedstead furnished in burgher style with a red coverlet and blue bolster, about to plunge the dagger into her heart with her right hand. Several studies, dated 1508, in Albertina Collection, Vienna. One in British Museum.—Thausing (Eaton), ii, 35, 132; Ephrussi, 157.

By Guido Reni, Turin Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 2 in. × 2 ft. 1 in. Lucretia, half-length, nude, holding in her hand the dagger with which she has stabbed herself. Engraved by Lasinio.—Gal. di Torino, ii. Pl. 65.

By Filippino Lippi, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 1 ft. 4 in. × 4 ft. 2 in. Action divided into two parts: 1. The death of Lucretia; 2. The exposure of her body, in the Forum, with Brutus inciting the people against Tarquin.—Cat. Pal. Pitti.

By Palma Vecchio, Vienna Museum; wood, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 2 ft. 1 in. Half-*length; Lucretia, with the dagger in her right hand; in the gloom behind, her husband Collatinus, who grasps her arm and strives to prevent her suicide. Copy attributed to Paris Bordone, at Hampton Court; another by Varotari, in Uffizi.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 476.

By Il Sodoma, Turin Gallery; wood, H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 6 in. Lucretia in act of killing herself.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 224.

By Titian, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 2 in. × 2 ft. 4 in. Half-length, about to kill herself with a dagger. Probably of Titian's later time, but not a very attractive picture.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 426.

Lucretia and Tarquin, Guido Cagnacci, Accademia di S. Lucas, Rome.

LUCRETIA AND TARQUIN, Guido Cagnacci, Accademia di S. Luca, Rome. Lucretia, nude, on a couch, resists Tarquin, who holds her with his left hand and threatens her with a dagger in his right; in background, an old slave as sentinel. Formerly in secret Museum of the Capitol. Cagnacci's masterpiece. Many copies, and often engraved.

By Luca Giordano, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 4. ft. 3 in. × 5 ft. 11 in. Lucretia, nude, upon a couch; Tarquin has one hand upon her shoulder, and points with the other to a black servant beyond. Engraved by P. Tanjé.—Gal. Roy. de Dresde, i. Pl. 37.

By Titian, Hertford House, London; canvas, H. 7 ft. 2 in. × 4 ft. 8 in.; signed. Lucretia, nearly nude, on a couch, resists the assaults of Tarquin, in green doublet and crimson hose, who threatens her with a dagger; to left, a man peeps from behind a curtain. Painted about 1571 (?); passed from collection of Joseph Bonaparte to Lord Northwick, thence to Mr. Conyngham, at whose sale it was bought for 520 guineas by Marquis of Hertford. Perhaps the picture in the Louvre in 1752-54, which was bought by Louis XIV. of Jabach, who obtained it from the collection of Charles I. of England;