Lucretia (Artemisia Gentileschi, Los Angeles)

Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi

Lucretia

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

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]

## Provenance

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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]

## See also

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* List of works by Artemisia Gentileschi

## References

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1. ^ "Artemisia Gentileschi Joins Getty's Collection". Getty Iris. 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
2. ^ "Massimo Stanzione, Lucrezia" (in Italian).
3. ^ a b "Lucretia". The J. Paul Getty Museum. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ "Getty acquires a striking painting by Artemisia Gentileschi of the Roman heroine Lucretia". www.theartnewspaper.com. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
6. ^ "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.

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Artemisia Gentileschi

Paintings|

| 1610s|

* Susanna and the Elders (Pommersfelden)
* Madonna and Child (Rome)
* Judith Slaying Holofernes (Naples)
* Danaë
* Portrait of a Nun
* Allegory of Inclination
* Judith and Her Maidservant (Florence)
* Self-Portrait as a Lute Player
* Self-Portrait as a Female Martyr
* Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
* Mary Magdalene
* Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
* Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Florence)

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1620s|

* Cleopatra (Milan)
* Cleopatra (Ferrara)
* Portrait of a Lady, dressed in a gold embroidered costume
* Jael and Sisera
* Saint Cecilia
* Judith Slaying Holofernes (Florence)
* Mary Magdalene as Melancholy
* Susanna and the Elders (Burghley)
* Portrait of a Gonfaloniere
* Portrait of a Lady Holding a Fan
* Lucretia (Milan)
* Christ Blessing the Children
* Medea
* Penitent Magdalene
* Judith and Her Maidservant (Detroit)
* Venus and Cupid
* Esther Before Ahasuerus
* Lucretia (Los Angeles)
* Aurora

1630s|

* Annunciation (Naples)
* Corisca and the Satyr
* Self-Portrait (Rome)
* Clio, Muse of History
* The Birth of Saint John the Baptist
* Lot and His Daughters
* Bathsheba (Columbus)
* Cleopatra (Rome)
* Saint Januarius in the Amphitheatre at Pozzuoli
* Adoration of the Magi
* Saints Proculus and Nicea
* Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
* David and Goliath
* Christ and the Samaritan Woman
* Judith and Her Maidservant (Oslo)
* Susanna and the Elders (Edinburgh)
* Susanna and the Elders (private collection)

1640s|

* Susanna and the Elders (Brno)
* Lucretia (Potsdam)
* Judith and Her Maidservant (Naples)
* Judith and Her Maidservant (Cannes)
* Saint Apollonia

1650s|

* Susanna and the Elders (Bologna)
* Virgin and Child with a Rosary

Related|

* Bibliography
* Orazio Gentileschi (father)
* Allegory of Painting (Le Mans; disputed attribution)
* Artemisia (1997 film)

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