The Suicide of Lucretia (Dürer)

The Suicide of Lucretia is an oil on lime panel painting by Albrecht Dürer, signed and dated 1518, in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. It shows the Ancient Rome heroine Lucretia, wife of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, in a tall and narrow framing, in the act of killing herself rather than face the shame of being raped by her cousin Sextus Tarquinius. The panel is Dürer's second treatment of Lucretia, following a very similar 1508 drawing.

The earlier composition, drawn in ink with wash on paper, is in the Albertina museum, Vienna.