Susannah and the Elders
- Date
- c. 1620
- Medium
- Oil on copper panel
- Dimensions
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45.9 x 36 cm
Frame: 13 3/4 x 18 x 2 (34.9 x 45.7 x 5.1)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
- Accession No.
- 41.89
- Provenance
- Newport, RI, coll. Winthrop Astor Chandler;
New York, A. F. Mondschein (dealer-1941), from whom purchased by the Founders Society as a gift to the DIA (as The Prodigal Son, by Carlo Saraceni).
- Keywords
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metal, paint, panel, copper, religion, christian
Published References
Richardson, E. P., "Renieri, Saraceni, and the Meaning of Caravaggio's Influence", Art Quarterly , 1942, vol. 5, pp. 238-40.
Richardson, E.P. (ed.), DIA, Catalogue of Paintings , (2nd ed.) Detroit, 1944, pp. 118, 183, no. 720, repr. (as Carlo Saraceni).
Detroit, DIA, "Art in Italy, 1600-1700," 1965, pp. 163-164, cat. 187, repr. (entry by R. Manning as by Carlo Saraceni).
Moir, A., The Italian Followers of Caravaggio , Cambridge, MA, 1967, vol. I, pp. 48-49, note 105; vol. 2, p. 103 (listed as a questionable work by Saraceni).
Ottani Cavina. A., Carlo Saraceni , Milan, 1968, p. 137, cat. 134 (as a questionable work).
Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri, Census of Pre Nineteenth Century Paintings in North American Public Collections , Cambridge, MA,1972, p. 183. (as Sarceni)
Nicolson, B., The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650 , Oxford/New York, 1979, p. 88 (as by follower of Elsheimer)
Bissell, W. & Darr, A. "A Rare Painting by Ottavio Leoni," Bulletin of the DIA , vol. 58, no. 1, 1980, pp. 46-53, repr.
Byam Shaw, J., ¦The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection¦, 2 vols., Paris, 1983, vol. 1, p. 158, note 2, p. 160
Sani, B., 1989, pp. 192-3 (this is listed in 2005 cat. in refs. and in note 3, but the actual citation is not included in the volume's bibliography)
Garrard, M. D., Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art , Princeton, 1989, p. 532 n. 39.
Kruft, H.-W., "Ottavio Leoni als Porträtmaler", in Storia dell'Arte , 72, 1991, pp. 183-190, esp. pp. 183, 185, fig. 3
Sani, B., "Ottavio Leoni," in The Dictionary of Art , 1996, (ed. ), vol. 26, p. 94.
Robbin, C. R., "Scipione Borghese's Acquisition of Paintings and Drawings by Ottavio Leoni", in The Burlington Magazine , 138, 1996, p. 453, note 3
Exh. cat. London, ¦Old Master Paintings¦, Sotheby's, 9 June 1998, under lot 123
Rizzo, M. T., "Ottavio Leoni pittore (1578-1630). Precisazioni sulla produzione pittorica e contributi documentari", in Studi romani , 47, nos. 1-2 (1999), pp. 25-42, esp. pp. 27, 30, note 13
Robbin, C. R., "Ottavio Leoni as a Painter. New Evidence from an Inventory of his House on via del Babuino", in Storia dell'Arte , 99, 2000, pp. 84-93, esp. p. 90, note 22
Viatte, F., "Fatto di notte: remarques sur le nocturne dans le dessin", in ¦Mélanges en hommage à Pierre Rosenberg: peintures et dessins en France et en Italie, XVIe-XVIIe siècles¦, Paris, 2001, pp. 448-57, esp. p. 449, note 6
Bissell, R. W., Derstine, A. and Miller, D., ¦Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts¦, London, 2005, pp. 9, 11 (note 11), 120-23 (cat. no. 38, entry by W. Bissell)
