Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris celebrates the role of Artemisia Gentileschi in seventeenth-century painting

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris will host from March 19 to August 3, 2025 Artemisia - Héroïne de l’art, an exhibition dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi, curated by Patrizia Cavazzini, Maria Cristina Terzaghi and Pierre Curie. Through a selection of about forty paintings, the exhibition aims to celebrate Artemisia Gentileschi’s role in 17th-century art history. The exhibition brings together universally recognized masterpieces, works recently attributed to the artist, and paintings rarely seen outside their usual venues, thus offering an opportunity to explore the extraordinary depth and originality of her work.

The aim of the exhibition is to highlight not only Artemisia’s exceptional technical mastery, but also the strength of her personal and artistic journey, which continues to inspire and fascinate modern audiences.

Her early training with her father Horace, fundamental to understanding her art, as well as the strong influence of Caravaggio, will be highlighted in the exhibition, especially through exceptional loans, such as the great Susanna and the Old Men from Pommersfelden, her first signed and dated work, and Caravaggio’s Coronation of Thorns from the collection of Banca Popolare di Vicenza SpA in LCA. His talent as a portrait painter is a central focus of the exhibition, which presents a series of portraits, some of them recently discovered.

Also on display will be his famous Portrait as a Lute Player from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, theAllegory of Inclination from Casa Buonarroti, Judith and the Handmaid with the Head of Holofernes from the Uffizi Galleries, and Esther and Ahasuerus from the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The exhibition has the patronage of the Embassy of Italy.

Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris celebrates the role of Artemisia Gentileschi in seventeenth-century painting

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