All of the paintings reproduced here are referred to in The Passion of Artemisia in the chapters indicated on the enlargement pages. At the base of this page is a list of all the Gentileschi works currently in museums and collections in the United States.

"This will show Your Lordship what a woman can do."
letter from Artemisia to Don Antonio Ruffo, August 7, 1649, Naples

Susanna and the Elders,
1610

Judith Slaying Holofernes
(Naples) 1612-1613

Inclination,
c. 1613-1615

Judith Slaying Holofernes (Uffizi),
c. 1618-1620

Judith and Her Maidservant,
c. 1613-1614

The Penitent Magdalen,
c. 1617-1620

Cleopatra,
1621-22

Lucretia,
c. 1621

Judith and Her Maidservant
with the Head of Holofernes,
c. 1625

Self Portrait as the Allegory
of Painting,
c. 1630

GENTILESCHI PAINTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES

• Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
• Esther Before Ahasuerus. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Lot and His Daughters. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
• Triumph of Galatea (in collaboration with Bernardo Cavallino). Saul Steinberg Collection, New York
• Santa Martire (aka Female Martyr). Newhouse Galleries, New York
• Portrait of a Noblewoman. Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey
• Venus and Cupid (aka Sleeping Venus). Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection Foundation
• Saint Catherine of Alexandria. El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
• David and Bathsheba (collaboration), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
• The Penitent Magdalen. The Marc A. Seidner Collection, Los Angeles, CA
• Danae. St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

• Judith and Her Maidservant. Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
• Young Woman Playing a Lute. National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Lot and His Daughters. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Madonna and Child. Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA