Cleopatra (Artemisia Gentileschi, Ferrara)

Cleopatra is a c.1620 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, now in the Fondazione Cavallini-Sgarbi collection in Ferrara.

It shows Cleopatra committing suicide with an asp.

Gentileschi painted four different versions of Cleopatra, one of which is currently lost.

[1] This version shows the queen upright, in a pose used by contemporary artists such as Guido Reni.

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