Lucretia (Artemisia Gentileschi, Los Angeles)
Lucretia is a painting by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi.[1] It is one of three paintings that Gentileschi painted of Lucretia, the wife of Roman consul and general Tarquinus, at the moment of her suicide. The other two versions are in a private collection in Milan (painted a few years before the Getty version) and Potsdam, whilst a work in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples of the same subject previously attributed to Gentileschi is now attributed by its owner to Massimo Stanzione.[2]
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| Artist | Artemisia Gentileschi |
| Year | c. 1627 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 92.9 cm × 72.7 cm (36.6 in × 28.6 in) |
| Location | The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Provenance
The painting is believed to date to Artemisia's stay in Venice in the late 1620s.[3] A set of poems written by Giovanni Francesco Loredan in 1627 are believed to refer to this work.[3] Its history is undocumented until its identification in a private collection in Cannes in the 1980s.[4] The painting was acquired by the Getty Museum in 2021.[5] The price paid by the Getty is unknown but the painting sold in 2019 for a record US$5.3m.[6]
References
- "Artemisia Gentileschi Joins Getty's Collection". Getty Iris. 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- "Massimo Stanzione, Lucrezia" (in Italian).
- "Lucretia". The J. Paul Getty Museum. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- Bissell, R. Ward (1999). Artemisia Gentileschi and the authority of art : critical reading and catalogue raisonné. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 374. ISBN 9780271017877.
- "Getty acquires a striking painting by Artemisia Gentileschi of the Roman heroine Lucretia". www.theartnewspaper.com. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- "The Getty Museum Just Acquired the Recently Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi Painting That Set a New Record at Auction". Artnet News. 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2021-04-01.