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Lucretia or Tarquinia Stabbing Herself
Francesco Coghetti1825–50
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The female figure is kneeling while facing right; her left arm is raised, right arm with knife pointed toward the throat.
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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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