Rubens' canvas Tarquinius and Lucretia was kept in various palaces in Berlin during the course of the 17th - 20th centuries. In 1926 it was moved to the picture gallery of the Sans-Souci Palace in Potsdam. The subject of this painting comes from the legendary history of Ancient Rome as set out in The Fasti by Ovid and Titus Livy's History of Rome from the Founding of the City. Legend speaks of a certain virtuous Lucretia, who was the wife of one of the patricians and was dishonored by Sextus, the son of the tyrant Tarquinius the Proud.