Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557)

1557

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 5 9/16 in. (9.3 × 14.2 cm)
Collection no.: 2006.326
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giuseppe Porta. Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557). Giuseppe Porta; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2006. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557) — Giuseppe Porta. 1557.

Medium: Woodcut. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 5 9/16 in. (9.3 × 14.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2006.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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