Portrait of a Woman Inspired by Lucretia is an oil on canvas portrait by Lorenzo Lotto, created c. 1533. It is now in the National Gallery, London, which bought it in 1927.[1]

It first appears in the written record at the end of the 18th century, when it was in the Pesaro collection in Venice - one theory holds that its subject was Lucrezi Valier, who married into the Pesaro family in 1533.[2] It was then still misattributed to Giorgione.[3]

The work's composition is similar to Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni, with a standing figure beside a table and surrounded by symbolic objects. The subject holds and points to a print of the Roman heroine Lucretia committing suicide. A note on the table bears the inscription "Nec ulla impudica Lucretiae exemplo vivet" (no unchaste woman shall live by Lucretia's example), a quotation from Livy's account of the suicide. Together these indicate the subject's chastity and conjugal virtues, as does the bouquet of violets on the table.[4]

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[es] Retrato de Lucrezia Valier

[it] Ritratto di gentildonna nelle vesti di Lucrezia