One of the central figures in this work speaks into the right ear of a bearded man wearing a blue jacket and a red cape, while that man holds one finger near to his mouth and focuses his attention on a third figure who bears a white cloth over her left thigh and averts her head from him, holding one hand near her neck and the other extended away from her body.
One of the central figures in this work speaks into the right ear of a bearded man wearing a blue jacket and a red cape, while that man holds one finger near to his mouth and focuses his attention on a third figure who bears a white cloth over her left thigh and averts her head from him, holding one hand near her neck and the other extended away from her body. At the age of 17 the artist completed this piece, which has also been depicted by Guido Reni and Van Dyck, and was no doubt influenced by sexual mistreatment at the hands of Agostino Tassi. Also the title of a Rembrandt painting, FTP, name this Gentileschi work depicting an episode from the Bible in which two old judges prey upon a virtuous Jewess.
One of the central figures in this work speaks into the right ear of a bearded man wearing a blue jacket and a red cape, while that man holds one finger near to his mouth and focuses his attention on a third figure who bears a white cloth over her left thigh and averts her head from him, holding one hand near her neck and the other extended away from her body.
{Susanna} and the {Elders} (and variants with those words)