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On Display

Permanent collection

Guido Reni

Bologna, 1575 - Bologna, 1642

Lucretia

Date c. 1636-38
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 101.5 x 82
Credit Line Purchased
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2001-0001

Provenance

Cardinale Boncompagni, Bologna(?); Duca Salviati, Florence & Rome until 1784 when acquired with the rest of his collection by John Udny, British Consul at Leghorn (Livorno); Passed to his brother, Robert Udny (1727-1800); His sale, Christie's, London 18th May 1804, lot. 86, bt. Richard Wyatt for L 42.0s; Probably John Sweetman, by whom sold at Herbert's , Dublin, 1-2 December 1817, lot. 13, bt. Plunkett; Private Collection, Ireland; Purchased by the NMWA, 2002.

Exhibition History

2014
The Rings from The Hashimoto Collection of The National Museum of Western Art, The National Museum of Western Art, 8 July 2014 - 15 September 2014, cat. no. 248
2015
Guercino, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 3 March 2015 - 31 May 2015, cat. no. 31
2017
[Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 33
2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_33 | T2_36

Bibliography

1802
[Vaux, Edward.] Catalogue of the Entire Collection of Pictures belonging to Robert Udny, Esq., Deceated; Catalogue of the Pictures at Teddington. 1802, p.19/20.
1999
Pepper, D. Stephen. Guido Reni's Practice of Reparing Compositions. Atribus et Historiae. n. 39, 1999, pp. 30-33, fig. 3.
2003
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 36 (Apr. 2001-Mar. 2002), 2003, Takahashi, Mitsumasa. New Acquisitions. pp. 8-12, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37, repr.
2013
Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 35, col. repr.
2017
Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 59, 139, cat. no. 33, col. repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 79, 178, cat. no. Y2_33 | T2_36, col. repr.

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