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AN OLD MASTERPIECE SOLD HERE
[[image - black & white photograph of a painting by Tintoretto called "Lucretia and Tarquinius"]]
[[caption]] "Lucretia and Tarquinius," by Tintoretto, which is going to the Art Institute of Chicago.[[/caption]]
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One of the finest paintings by the Venetian master, Jacopo Tintoretto, a canvas of the late Fifteen-Fifties, entitled "Lucretia and Tarquinius," has been purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago, it was learned here yesterday.

The picture was acquired through the A. & E. Silberman Galleries of Fifty-seventh Street from the New York collector, Richard Goetz, who had owned it for thirty years. The price is not known, but a well-founded report had it that Mr. Goetz refused $100,000 for it a year ago.

The two figures in the painting, Tarquinius Collatinus and his wife, Lucretia, were, in Roman legend, instrumental in establishing the Roman republic in 534 B. C. The picture is the fourth Tintoretto to be acquired by the institute. There are about twenty by the artist in American museums. Three are in the National Gallery in Washington and three in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Two other important paintings came into the possession of the institute at the same time. One was "The Feast in the House of Simon" by El Greco, a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbottom of Chicago who have contributed many outstanding works to the museum's collections.

The other was "The Synagogue" by Magnasco, painted about 1703. A similar composition is in the Uffizi Museum in Florence.
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