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Death of Lucretia
Paulus Moreelse (Dutch, 1571–1638)
1612
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut in two tone blocks and one line block
Dimensions
Sheet: 27.4 × 32.8 cm (10 13/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK40
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. XIV, Moreelse) I (II/III)
State
I
Signed
Signed in block, upper right: PMoreelse In:/1612; underneath is the monogram of the unidentified block cutter over a cutting tool
Marks
Watermark (though not deciphered); verso, in graphite: Bought of F. Meder/Dec. 1892/$2[?].70 [circled]/K; [?] 1166; much faded MFA Koehler collection stamp [Lugt 1581] in purple ink, with accession number in black ink: 40
InscriptionsInscription in letterpress in lower margin, lower left: Nataiaces, cast: exemplum memorabile zeli,/Nataiaces, gemino sed superatamalo; and lower right: Corruptum est corpus, men's incorrupta remansit:/In te damnasti, cur scelus alterius?
ProvenanceDecember, 1892, purchased from F. Meder (dealer, New York) by Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900), Leipzig and Boston; October 20, 1898, his gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 20, 1898)