An illustration portrays several ancient Roman figures.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

An illustration portrays several ancient Roman figures. Three men stand to the right, two of them reaching out towards a seated female figure on the left. She holds out one arm in their direction. Another female figure sits between the men and the woman, and another woman stands to the far left, leaning on a sculpture’s base. Two women stand behind all six other figures, in the shadows.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.123
People
Jean François Janinet, French (1752 - 1814)
After Jean-Guillaume Moitte, French (Paris 1746 - 1810 Paris)
Title
The Virtue of Lucretia
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1789
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354327

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and roulette
Dimensions
Image: 24.6 x 52.5 cm (9 11/16 x 20 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 32 x 59.6 cm (12 5/8 x 23 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, right, in graphite: 730511 [in graphite box]
  • inscription: verso, in plate, bottom right: Janinet sculp. 1789.
  • inscription: verso, in plate, bottom center: A.P.D.R.
  • inscription: verso, in plate, bottom left: Moitte Sculpteur del.
  • inscription: recto, center, in blue frame: LA VERTU DE LUCRÉCE / les fils de Tarquin le superbe coyant suprendre / Lucréce femme du collatin: la trouvent occupée au milieu / de ses femmes à filer et à travailler à des ouvrages de laine. / A Paris chez Janinet, rue Haute Feuille N.°5. Et chez Joffroid, md d' Estampes, a Palais Royal, N°.146. / Et auß, chez Mondhar et Jean rue S. Jean de Bauvais.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, Massachusetts], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
only state
Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. XII, no. 153, p. 64; Portalis and Béraldi, no. 71

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.123
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Victor Carlson and John Ittmann, Regency to Empire: French Printmaking, 1715-1814, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1984), pp. 302-303 [not Harvard impression]
  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 235-237, repr. p. 229 (detail) and p. 235 as fig. 5

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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