Little attention is given to the background, a slightly cloudy blue sky and a stone bench, in this painting now held at Weissenstein Castle in Pommersfeld.
Little attention is given to the background, a slightly cloudy blue sky and a stone bench, in this painting now held at Weissenstein Castle in Pommersfeld. A dark haired man in brown hangs over the left of the bench, his face obscured as he whispers to his companion, a bearded man in red who places his finger over his mouth to direct the title character to hush. Wearing only a white cloth that covers her left thigh and showing her left breast, the title character sits on the bench, pushes her hands out, and recoils away in visible distress. FTP, name this first signed painting of Artemisia Gentileschi, depicting a Apocryphal woman receiving unwanted advances from her village leaders.
Little attention is given to the background, a slightly cloudy blue sky and a stone bench, in this painting now held at Weissenstein Castle in Pommersfeld.
{Susanna and the Elders}