Catharina van Hemessen (?) Unveiled in Cincinnati
April 17 2024
Picture: eu.cincinatti.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Curious news from Cincinnati that a private collector has loaned a purportedly rediscovered religious work by Catharina van Hemessen to the city's University library for a special exhibition entitled Rediscovering Catharina van Hemessen’s Scourging of Christ: Women Artists, Patrons, and Rulers in Renaissance Europe. The signed work (see above) was brought to the university's attention after technical analysis was undertaken on it by a conservator.
According to the article linked above:
Before the painting landed in Cincinnati, it was briefly displayed in Detroit. The painting's frame reads "collection of E. Raymond Field," a previous owner, and "Exhibited Detroit Institute of Arts."
The exhibition in Detroit was one of only two times in the last 50 to 75 years the "Scourging of Christ" was publicly displayed, [Chris] Platts said.
"Most people don't even know it exists because it's not on public display. It's not in a lot of the Hemmesen books and articles," he said.
"So curators who are doing a show on famous Renaissance women or Baroque women artists wouldn't even know about its existence, or if they do, they wouldn't know where to find it," he added. "That's what makes it special to have it here."
The painting will be on display until 30th April 2024, and it appears that no other comments from other Italian paintings experts have been supplied.
