Hercules and Omphale Attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi

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Jori Finkel, In the Rubble, a 17th-Century Gem; A painting scarred by a 2020 blast in Beirut is attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi. New York Times, Oct 26, 2022, at page C1 (C is Arts section).
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/ ... eschi-painting.html
https://us.knews.media/news/dama ... rged-a-gentileschi/
https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/25/dam ... rged-a-gentileschi/

Note:
(a) "It [painting] is recognized by experts as a long-lost painting of Hercules and Omphale by Artemisia Gentileschi, the great 17th-century Italian painter known for portraying strong women from biblical and mythological scenes."
(i) Hercules and Omphale (Rubens)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_and_Omphale_(Rubens)
(ii)
(A) Omphale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphale
(section 2 Mythology, section 2.1 Heracles and Omphale: for his murder of Iphitus, the great hero Heracles, whom the Romans identified as Hercules, was, by the command of the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, remanded as a slave to Omphale for the period of a year * * * The theme, inherently a comic inversion of sexual roles")
(B) Iole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iole
(iii) Artemisia (plant)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_(plant)
("The name Artemisia derives from the Greek goddess Artemis (Roman Diana)" )


(b) "the attribution, proposed by the Lebanese artist and art historian Gregory Buchakjian"(i) Gregory Buchakjian, After the Blast – at the Sursock Palace and Museum in Beirut. Apollo (magazine), Sept 3, 2020
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/ ... e-beirut-explosion/
("My master's thesis at Paris Sorbonne under the supervision of Antoine Schnapper and Véronique Powell focused on the mansion's 17th-century paintings. In the course of my research I attributed two canvases to Artemisia Gentileschi: Hercules and Omphale, dated to the early 1630s, and the Penitent Magdalene, probably from the 1640s. * * * The Hercules and Omphale has sustained major damage – there are now holes, tears and losses of paint on the entire surface")

He did not explain, at least in Apollo, how he came to the conclusion.
(A) Gregory Buchakjian (born in 1971 in Beirut as Lebanese; earned master's and PhD both from Université Paris IV Sorbonne) from several sources of the Web.
(B) Paris-Sorbonne University
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Sorbonne_University
(1971 - 2017; French: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)

In 1971, University of Paris split, creating among others, Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University (also 1971 - 2017; Paris VI). On Jan 1, 2018, Paris IV and Paris VI merged to form a new university called Sorbonne University (French: Sorbonne Université). Still all descendants of University of Paris co-own Sorbonne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbonne
("The building's primary entrance on the [(No) 47] rue des Écoles [which is locked all the time]")
• French municipalities also have rue de ecole.
• French-English dictionary:
* école (noun feminine; ultimately from Ancient Greek skholḗ; plural écoles): "school"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9cole
• Robert de Sorbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Sorbon
, chaplain of Louis IX of France, founded College of Sorbonne (French: Collège de Sorbonne) in 1253.
(C) Floor plan of Sorbonne: Also known as Plan de la Sorbonne (this and the next term are both French), Plan Sorbonne:
https://samos.univ-paris1.fr/archives/wsom/plansorb.pdf
, where the north is in the 2 o'clock direction. You can see (Sorbonne) Chapel is facing the junction of rue Victor Cousin (named after a French educational reformer Victor Cousin) and rue de la Sorbonne. The opposite of the Sorbonne building is bound by rue
rue Saint-Jacques, Paris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_Saint-Jacques,_Paris
("it was a main axial road of medieval Paris, as the buildings that still front it attest. It was the starting point for pilgrims leaving Paris to make their way along the Chemin de Saint-Jacques that led eventually to Santiago de Compostela")
(ii) Apollo (magazine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_(magazine)
(1925- ; based in London)
(iii) "Sursock Palace and Museum in Beirut"
(A) Sursock familyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sursock_family
("is a Greek Orthodox Christian family * * * Having originated in Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire, the family has lived in Beirut since 1712, when their forefather Jabbour Aoun (who later adopted the family name Sursock) left the village of Barbara" in Beirut)
(B) Sursock Palace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sursock_Palace
("is a grand residence [not a real palace owned or occupied by a monarch] * * * The palace faces the Sursock Museum, a villa from 1912 that was bequeathed to the city of Beirut by Nicolas Sursock and became a museum in 1961. * * * It was damaged during the 2020 Beirut explosions, but there are plans to rebuild the palace")

(c) "it [painting] most likely dated to the mid-1630s based on similarities with Gentileschi's 'Bathsheba at Her Bath' and 'Lot and His Daughters' that Buchakjian had pointed out."
(i) Bathsheba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba
(section 1 Biblical narrative; section 6 Cultural references, section 6.1 Art – Bathsheba in her bath)
(ii) Another (possibly the third) painting of Bathsheba and bath by Artemisia Gentileschi.

File:Artemisia Gentileschi - Bathsheba at Her Bath (ca. 1637-1638).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi ... hsheba_at_Her_Bath_(ca._1637-1638).jpg

(d) Getty's "Gasparotto said he hoped to exhibit 'Hercules and Omphale' at the Getty by early 2024. He will most likely hang it alongside 'Lucretia,' an earlier painting by Gentileschi that the Getty bought last year. It is a beautiful portrait of the noblewoman, with perfectly creamy skin, about to insert a dagger into her chest."
(i) Lucretia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia
("(died c. 510 BC) was a noblewoman in ancient Rome, whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius ([English:] Tarquin) and subsequent suicide precipitated a rebellion that overthrew the Roman monarchy and led to the transition of Roman government from a kingdom to a republic. * * * There are no contemporary sources of Lucretia and the event. Information regarding Lucretia, her rape and suicide, and the consequence of this being the start of the Roman Republic, come from the accounts of Roman historian Livy and Greco-Roman historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus approximately 500 years later. * * * According to modern sources, Lucretia's narrative is considered a part of Roman mythohistory")
(ii) Lucretia ("about 1627[;] Artemisia Gentileschi"). Getty Museum, undated
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109Q8G