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]

Lucretia
Yearc. 1630
CollectionUnknown, J. Paul Getty Museum 

The painting was acquired by the Getty Museum in 2021.[3] The price paid by the Getty is unknown but the painting sold in 2019 for a record US$ 5.3m.[4]

References
  1. "Artemisia Gentileschi Joins Getty's Collection". Getty Iris. 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  2. "Massimo Stanzione, Lucrezia" (in Italian).
  3. "Getty acquires a striking painting by Artemisia Gentileschi of the Roman heroine Lucretia". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  4. "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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