About This Artwork

Pierino da Vinci (Attributed to)
Italian, c. 1529-1553

Lucretia (?), 1547/48

Bronze, yellow patina
7 in. (17.8 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky, 1964.1159

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, “Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections,” 22 July – 17 September 1972 [no cat.].

Publication History

Peter Meller, “Un Gruppo di Bronzetti di Pierino da Vinci del 1547,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz (1974), pp. 251-72.

Nicholas Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day, Vol. I: Italian (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 101-03.

Ownership History

Collection of Jack Linsky, New York, by 1964; given to the Art Institute, 1964.