Stockholm acquires a new painting by a woman

7/9/26 - Acquisition - Stockholm, Nationalmuseum - The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, which continues to enrich its holdings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian paintings, seems decidedly to favour one gender, which has nothing to do with the various genres of painting [1], since it is primarily acquiring works by women artists. To the point that one might wonder whether it is really the Italian school that interests the museum.
After Artemisia Gentileschi and Sofonisba Anguissola (see the news item of 18/9/25), Lavinia Fontana has now joined the museum in turn with a mature work painted in 1607, the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, which had been in an Italian private collection since the late nineteenth century.