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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: 37.8 × 33 cm (14 7/8 × 13 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK39
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. XIV, Moreelse) I (III/III)
State
III/III
Signed
Signed in block, upper right: PMoreelse In:/1612; underneath is the monogram of the unidentified block cutter over a cutting tool, though obscured by the addition of vertical lines in this second state state
Marks
Watermark (though not deciphered); verso, in ink: F Gawet 1814. [there is another mark above, in ink, obscured by hinge]; in graphite: 3; bought of F. Meder./Dec. 1892/$2.70 [circled]/K/M. 1165; f[?]
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?
ProvenanceBefore 1814, Franz Gawet (b. 1765 - d. 1847; Lugt 1069), Vienna. December, 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)