Explore the Provenance of this artwork, Lucretia (Artemisia Gentileschi, Potsdam).
The painting is first recorded in the collection of the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma in 1671 and remained there until the 1730s, in the collection of the Farnese Dukes, beside two other paintings by Gentileschi, Bathsheba and Judith and her Maidservant. In the 1730s, the Carlo di Barbone, Duke of Parma, inherited the Farnese collection and shipped it to the newly-constructed Palazzo di Capodimonte in Naples. Two of the paintings - Tarquin and Lucretia and Bathsheba - were acquired for Frederick the Great for his Neues Palais in Potsdam in the 1750s. Judith was not shipped along with the others as it depicted a woman triumphing over a man, which did not fit the theme of the planned Obere Galerie in Potsdam.
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