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The female figure is kneeling while facing right; her left arm is raised, right arm with knife pointed toward the throat.

Details

  • Title: Lucretia or Tarquinia Stabbing Herself
  • Creator: Francesco Coghetti
  • Creator Lifespan: 1804/1875
  • Date Created: 1825–50
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper
  • Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli
  • Markings: part of a watermark: circle
  • Inscribed: Written in the left corner: "92," and in the corresponding corner on the back, "91."
  • Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.5 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

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