LACMA acquire Virginia Vezzi Self Portrait
April 29 2025
Picture: lacma.org
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) have announced their acquisition of Virginia Vezzi's (also known as Virginia da Vezzo) Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (spotted via @mweilc). The work was acquired through the New York dealer Robert Simon.
According to their website (which is worth reading in full):
Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a rediscovered painting by Virginia Vezzi, also known as Virginia da Vezzo, whose story is a typical one for a female artist in the early years of the 1600s. Despite her success as a painter in Rome and Paris, her reputation was ignored by contemporary chroniclers and then ultimately lost to the writers of art history in the centuries that followed. Only recently have the biographical details of her life been uncovered, and along with them, her artistic accomplishments.
