Tarquin and Lucretia

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Artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, August 30, 1727–March 3, 1804)

After Artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, March 5, 1696–March 27, 1770)

Title Tarquin and Lucretia

Date 1745–1750

Medium Etching on paper

Dimensions Image: 7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in. (20.2 × 15.7 cm)
Plate: 9 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (23.2 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 3/4 in. (24.9 × 19.7 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 67.61

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About this Work

Domenico Tiepolo's print is based on a painting by his famous father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, created between 1745 and 1750 for the Barbaro Palace in Venice (now in the Augsburg Museum) or its preparatory drawing in the Stuttgart Museum.

Both works depict a story from Ovid in which an ancient Roman woman, who is raped by an Etruscan prince and commits suicide, sets off an anti-monarchist rebellion. Domenico's etching was originally printed on the same sheet as another image of a powerful historical woman, Cleopatra Honored with Gifts.

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1967, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Lucien Goldschmidt Gallery, New York, NY

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