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Rembrandt: Susanna and the Elders

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Alternative names	Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Description	Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death	15 July 1606	4 October 1669
Location of birth/death	Leiden	Amsterdam
Work period	between circa 1625 and circa 1669 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Leiden (1620-1624), Amsterdam (1624-1625), Leiden (1625-1633), Amsterdam (1631-1669)
Authority file	: Q5598 VIAF: 64013650 ISNI: 0000000121363802 ULAN: 500011051 LCCN: n79142935 NLA: 35139809 WorldCat

Title

Susanna and the Elders

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Susanna and the Elders

Depicted people

Susanna

Date

1647

Medium

oil on mahagony panel

Dimensions

height: 76.6 cm (30.1 in); width: 92.8 cm (36.5 in)

Collection

Gemäldegalerie

	Native name	Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
	Parent institution	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
	Location	Berlin
	Coordinates	52° 30′ 31″ N, 13° 21′ 53″ E
	Established	1830
	Website	smb.museum
	Authority file	: Q165631 VIAF: 139597962 ISNI: 0000000120974783 LCCN: n94003740 OSM: 3626233 GND: 806975-X WorldCat

Accession number

828E

Object history

1647: purchased by Adriaen Banck (....-after 1660), Amsterdam, from Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Amsterdam for NLG 500 (?)

31 August 1660: purchased by Adriaen Maen, Dordrecht/ Schiedam, from Adriaen Banck for NLG 560

by 16 April 1738: Baron Schönborn, Pommersfelden

16 April 1738: sale of the collection of [Baron Schönborn] at Gysbert Hol, Amsterdam, lot no. 67, for NLG 100

by 1766: Jacques Aved (1702-1766), City of Brussels/ The Hague/ Paris

24 November 1766: sale of the collection of J.A.J. Aved at Remy, Paris, lot no. 31, for FRF 2,360

by 1 May 1769: Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
by 12 June 1769: Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London

1792: inherited by Mary II Palmer (1750-1820) from Joshua Reynolds
14 March 1795: purchased by Wilson at the sale of the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds at Christie's, London, lot no. 82, for 156 guineas , for Mary II Palmer
22 March 1795: purchased by Charles Offley for 120 guineas
1796: acquired by Joseph Berwick, London/ Attingham Park, Shropshire

Unknown date: inherited by Mary Berwick (....-1820) and Anthony Lechmere, 1st Baronet (1766-1849)
Unknown date: inherited by Sir Edmund Hungerford Lechmere, 2nd Baronet (1792-1856)
by 1883: Sir Edmund Lechmere, 3rd Baronet (1826-1894), The Rhydd, Worcestershire

1883: acquired by Charles Sedelmeyer (art dealer), Paris

1883: acquired by the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Exhibition history

Rembrandt in eighteenth century England, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 19 October 1983–30 December 1983, ISBN 0930606442, cat. no. 5.
Rembrandt, The master and his workshop, Altes Museum, Berlin, 12 September 1991–10 November 1991, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 4 December 1991–1 March 1992, National Gallery, London, 26 March 1992–24 May 1992, Cat.no. 37.

Rembrandt - Genie auf der Suche, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 4 August 2006–5 November 2006, cat. no. 55.

Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom right:

Rembrandt. f. [1]647

References

RKDimages, Art-work number 49190, as Susanna and the elders (Daniel 13:1-63), circa 1638-1637, height: 76.6 cm (30.1 in); width: 92.8 cm (36.5 in) Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage Photolibrary, object number 40006683, as Suzanne et les vieillards, 1638-1647, height: 76 cm (29.9 in); width: 91 cm (35.8 in).
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 02552499, as Susanna und die beiden Alten, 1647, height: 76.6 cm (30.1 in); width: 92.7 cm (36.4 in)
Web Gallery of Art, as Susanna and the Elders, 1647, height: 77 cm (30.3 in); width: 93 cm (36.6 in).

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Susanna and the Elders

1647 Oil on mahogany panel, 77 x 93 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The subject is taken from the Apocryphal History of Susanna. Two Jewish Elders, hidden in the garden, threaten Susanna that they will publicly accuse her of committing adultery with a young man unless she gives herself to them. She is eventually exonerated by the wise judge, Daniel, and the Elders are punished.

The subject, like that of Bathsheba, clearly had a considerable fascination for Rembrandt and is evidence (of which there is plenty more elsewhere in his work) that he was a man of strong sensuality. He made numerous drawings of Susanna and at least one other painting, now in The Hague. That picture executed in 1636 was, in fact, used as the starting point for the present one, which appears to have been begun shortly afterwards, i.e. ten years before it was completed in the form we see it now. As X-rays show, the Berlin painting consists of three layers, the first of which reveals the agitated type of composition characteristic of Rembrandt's style of the 1630s. When he re-painted the picture in 1647, he revised the design throughout, changing it into something much calmer. It is now the handling which is lively, not the composition. The figure style, the lighting, the colour and even the relationship of the figures to the landscape setting are all typical of the mid-1640s. For the composition, Rembrandt used a painting of the <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/l/lastman/susanna.html')" href="/html/l/lastman/susanna.html">same subject by Lastman,</a> also now in Berlin, which he copied in a drawing. For all the lack of movement, the narrative and psychological elements of the story are conveyed with the utmost clarity. Rembrandt no longer needed the heightened dramatic language of the Baroque to express emotion at this period of his life.

The painting was once owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was among Rembrandt's greatest admirers.

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Author: REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn Title: Susanna and the Elders Time-line: 1601-1650 School: Dutch Form: painting

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