diff --git a/packages/ckeditor5-image/src/imageresize/imageresizeediting.ts b/packages/ckeditor5-image/src/imageresize/imageresizeediting.ts
index f0adf13dc56..84975d7d55e 100644
--- a/packages/ckeditor5-image/src/imageresize/imageresizeediting.ts
+++ b/packages/ckeditor5-image/src/imageresize/imageresizeediting.ts
@@ -186,6 +186,21 @@ export default class ImageResizeEditing extends Plugin {
 							return null;
 						}
 
+						// If this is an image inside a figure with width style, skip setting the width.
+						// See: https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/17441
+						if ( viewElement.name !== 'figure' ) {
+							let parent = viewElement.parent;
+
+							// Traverse up through parents until we find a figure or run out of ancestors
+							while ( parent ) {
+								if ( parent.is( 'element' ) && imageUtils.isBlockImageView( parent ) && parent.getStyle( 'width' ) ) {
+									return null;
+								}
+
+								parent = parent.parent;
+							}
+						}
+
 						return viewElement.getStyle( 'width' );
 					}
 				}
diff --git a/packages/ckeditor5-image/tests/imageresize/imageresizeediting.js b/packages/ckeditor5-image/tests/imageresize/imageresizeediting.js
index c8c0b67d41b..cbee886ccba 100644
--- a/packages/ckeditor5-image/tests/imageresize/imageresizeediting.js
+++ b/packages/ckeditor5-image/tests/imageresize/imageresizeediting.js
@@ -105,6 +105,16 @@ describe( 'ImageResizeEditing', () => {
 				expect( editor.model.document.getRoot().getChild( 0 ).getAttribute( 'resizedWidth' ) ).to.equal( '100px' );
 			} );
 
+			it( 'it should prefer the width from the figure element over the width from the image element', () => {
+				editor.setData(
+					'<figure class="image" style="width:100px;">' +
+						`<img src="${ IMAGE_SRC_FIXTURE }" style="width:200px;">` +
+					'</figure>'
+				);
+
+				expect( editor.model.document.getRoot().getChild( 0 ).getAttribute( 'resizedWidth' ) ).to.equal( '100px' );
+			} );
+
 			it( 'upcasts 50% width correctly', () => {
 				editor.setData( `<figure class="image" style="width:50%;"><img src="${ IMAGE_SRC_FIXTURE }"></figure>` );