Claude Mellan and Simon Vouet
The Suicide of Lucretia
1600-1699
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 432 x 280 mm. (17 x 11 in.)
Image: 389 x 276 mm. (15 5/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2757
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Montaiglon, Anatole de, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan, Abbeville, Briez, 1856, no. 122. Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, Paris: E. Bouillon, 1854-1888, no. 173.
Préaud, Maxime, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des Estampes, Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, tome 17: Claude Mellan, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1988, no. 132, ill. p. 96.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: LL in pl.: 'Hoc Iatus indigno [...2 columns of 4 lines]'; BC in pl.: 'Sim. Voüet paris. pinx.'; BR in pl.: 'Cl. Mellan Gall.s Sculp. Romæ Superioru y missu'. VERSO: C (graphite): 'OF. 19-25'; LLE: red Claghorn stamp; BL (graphite, in diamond): '5603'; BRC (graphite): 'fine & Scarce'.
Markings: none - illegible
