Art Museum in rural Danish acquires Artemisia Gentileschi Susanna and the Elder (1644–48), a large-scale work by Italian Baroque artists.
Nivaagaard series says Susanna and the Elder It was “the most important addition since 1908” when it was founded by Johannes Hage. Located about 40 minutes north of Copenhagen, the museum is now the first Danish institution to possess works by artists.
The story of Susanna and the elder is an Ale emisia of Gentileschi, and it comes back repeatedly. She portrayed it at the age of 17, which is often considered to be her earliest known work. She even returned to the painting in her last painting before her death in 1656.
The Nivaagaard Collection acquires works from the artist’s later stages and are depicted in a vulnerable position with a lifespan size.
Director Andrea Rygg Karberg was able to beat dozens of international galleries to buy the painting in undisclosed quantities this summer, despite the museum’s collection.
Susanna and the Elder Previously a private collection, sold by New York-based seniors dealer Nicholas Hall, who visited Nivaagaard in 2023 as part of the holiday.
“It made a big impression,” Hall told Sunday Times In his visit, the Danish institution was described as “a small museum but with an impressive room for paintings by masters of Europeans.”
The Country Gallery joins numerous institutions such as Getty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Uffizi and the London National Gallery, and has obtained a work for the work of a famous female artist who was trained by his father Orazio Entileschi.
Alemisia (Artemisia) is famous for overcoming the career odds of female artists of her own time. She was raped by a young woman and then forced to provide evidence through the subsequent trial. The lawsuit did not ruin her career. Her working clients include the Medici family in Florence and Charles I, King of England.
The artist has become an idol of her striking and highly technically accomplished female characters, including Judith beheads HolofernesCleopatra and Mary Magdalene.
It is worth noting that the record shows that until 2022, he had only one female artist’s work in the Nivaagaard series, when another portrait was determined to be completed by Europa Anguissola, the sister of more famous Sofonisba.
Earlier this year, Nivaagaard Collection also acquired two works by Flemish Artist Catharina Ykens II, dating back to CA. 1688.
Acquisition Susanna and the Elder The generous donations of the New Karlsberg Foundation and the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation were helped.
