Lucretia is seen at half-length, in a white chemise and a green dress with a dagger in her right hand. She looks up and to her right; Tarquin is seen in shadow over her right shoulder.

This is a competent but stiff copy of Titian’s painting of c. 1514-15 (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna), which is sometimes attributed to Palma Vecchio. It appears to be close in date to the original, but is not by an artist close to Titian. A similar picture was recorded in the collection of Charles I, hung in the Square Table Room at Whitehall as an overdoor and attributed to Titian. This provenance has been attached to both the present picture and to the original in Vienna; the absence of the Charles I brand from both is more easily explained in the case of the Viennese panel, which has been planed and cradled, but the question remains open.

The painting appears in Pyne's illustrated 'Royal Residences' of 1819, hanging in Queen Caroline's Drawing Room at Kensington Palace (RCIN 922151).