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A painting by Sofonisba Anguissola for Stockholm
18/9/25 - Acquisition - Stockholm, Nationalmuseum - Museums are particularly pleased when they can enrich their collections with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by women artists, who are naturally fewer in number than those active in the nineteenth century and later. Italian women in particular are enjoying a surge in popularity — Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi, among others.
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- 1. Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625)
Portrait of a Canon, c. 1554–1556
Oil on panel – 19 × 15 cm
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Photo: Stockholm Nationalmuseum - See the image in its page
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm recently acquired a painting by Sofonisba (ill. 1), which now joins the one by Artemisia acquired in 2020 (see the article). This…
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