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Ludovico Mazzanti
The Death of Lucretiacirca 1735 - 1737

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Model Lives in Baroque Italy
Oil painting of a young woman in a coral skirt and white shift seated on a gilded bed, arms raised and head thrown back, with heavy drapery behind her
Artist or Maker
Ludovico Mazzanti
Italy, Rome, 1686-1775
Title
The Death of Lucretia
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
circa 1735 - 1737
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 71 × 56 in. (180.34 × 142.24 cm) Frame: 85 × 67 × 4 in. (215.9 × 170.18 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.82.75
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Possibly commissioned for the prince of Aragon, Naples, or Antonio Widmann, Venice. Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York. Private collection, New York. Rejace collection, New York. [Maurice Segoura Inc., New York, by 1981, sold 1982 to]; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.

  • King, Jennifer, ed. Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2020.