Artemisia gentileschi paintings that were found
Artemisia gentileschi paintings that were found
Artemisia gentileschi paintings that were found in ancient.
Long-Lost Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Emerges After Centuries in Storage
A painting by Artemisia Gentileschi has been re-discovered by curators at the Royal Collection Trust after being misattributed for almost two centuries.
Susanna and the Elders has been traced back to Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I, and is said to have once hung over the Queen’s private fireplace.
The provenance of Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders is no longer a source of uncertainty thanks to an intrepid research project led by art historian Dr.
Niko Munz. Originally attributed to a male artist and later to the “French school,” the painting is now confirmed to be a creation of Artemisia Gentileschi, belonging to the collection of Charles I.
“It was very much the Queen’s painting,” said Munz, who focuses on locating paintings dispersed across Europe following the execution of Charles I.
According to a 1639 royal inventory, the painting hung above a fireplace at Whitehall Pa