Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
The Virtue of Lucretia
La Vertu de Lucrece
Jean-Francois Janinet
Platemark: 25 x 53 cm (9 13/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 32.8 x 62 cm (12 15/16 x 24 7/16 in.)
Etching, aquatint and roulette
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2012.24
Provenance/Ownership History: South German private collection. June 29-30, 2011, anonymous sale (auction no. 529), Hugo Ruef, Munich, lot 1524, sold to Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt; 2012, sold by Helmut Rumbler to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard