Susanna and the Elders

1590/1595

Annibale Carracci

Associated Names
Annibale Carracci

Artist, Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

This print features three figures: a woman seated with her legs bent beneath her, a man with a bushy beard and long hair, and another man with a bald head and full beard. The seated woman is nude but attempts to cover herself with a bunch of fabric as she looks over her shoulder towards the two men. The men wear robes and are leaning over a fence looking at her; one gestures towards her while the other points away. The background includes trees and a distant hilly landscape with a far-away building. In the bottom right corner is a large fountain carved with a cherubic figure with water flowing into the pool at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Kate Ganz

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31.8 x 31.1 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.) cut within platemark

  • Accession Number

    2008.104.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bohlin 1979, no. 14 i/iv(?) see comments

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Edward Astley, Norfolk (1729 - 1802) (Lugt 2774). Kate Ganz, New York; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch 1

1979

  • Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 14 i/iv

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in brown ink: An Car. 1.; by later hand, lower right verso in brown ink: Drawn + Etch'd by Annibale Carracci; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B. XVIII. 180/I / W246(2)

Wikidata ID

Q76439111

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