Susanna and the Elders

ca. 1620

Ottavio Leoni Italian, 1578-1630

Not On View

Image Only Image + Details All Images High Resolution TIFF Metadata

About the Artwork

Please note: This section is empty
Markings

Please note: This section is empty

This section contains information about signatures, inscriptions and/or markings an object may have.
Provenance

Please note: This section is empty

Provenance is a record of an object's ownership. We are continually researching and updating this information to show a more accurate record and to ensure that this object was ethically and legally obtained.

For more information on provenance and its important function in the museum, please visit:
Provenance page
Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Suggest Feedback
Published References

Please note: This section is empty

We regularly update our object record as new research and findings emerge, and we welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Suggest Feedback
Catalogue Raisonné

Please note: This section is empty

A catalogue raisonné is an annotated listing of artworks created by an artist across different media.
Credit Line for Reproduction

Please note: This section is empty

The credit line includes information about the object, such as the artist, title, date, and medium. Also listed is its ownership, the manner in which it was acquired, and its accession number. This information must be cited alongside the object whenever it is shown or reproduced.
Audio Transcript

Please note: This section is empty

About the Artwork

Title Susanna and the Elders

Artwork Date ca. 1620

Artist Ottavio Leoni

Life Dates 1578-1630

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on copper

Dimensions Unframed: 18 1/16 × 14 3/16 inches (45.9 × 36 cm) Framed: 13 3/4 × 18 × 2 inches (34.9 × 45.7 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 41.89

Markings

Signed Signed, on rock, lower left: Ottavio L[i or e]on fe[cit]

Provenance

collection of Winthrop Astor Chanler (Newport, Rhode Island, USA);
(A. F. Mondschein, New York, New York, USA);
1941-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

For more information on provenance, please visit:

Provenance page

Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.

Suggest Feedback

Published References

Richardson, E. P. "Renieri, Saraceni, and the Meaning of Caravaggio's Influence," Art Quarterly, vol. 5 (1942): pp. 238-40.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, pp. 118, 183, no. 720, (repr.) [as Carlo Saraceni].

Art in Italy, 1600-1700. DIA. Detroit, 1965, pp. 163-164, cat. 187, (repr.) [entry by R. Manning as by Carlo Saraceni].

Moir, A. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge, 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, 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 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 no. 39.

Kruft, H.-W. "Ottavio Leoni als Porträtmaler," 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," The Burlington Magazine, 138 (1996): p. 453, note 3.

Old Master Paints. Sales cat., Sotheby's. London, June 9, 1998, lot 123.

Rizzo, M. T. "Ottavio Leoni pittore (1578-1630). Precisazioni sulla produzione pittorica e contributi documentari," 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." 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., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. 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].

Aurigemma, Maria Giulia. "Venetian Artists in Rome, 1590–1630." In Caravaggio's Rome 1600–1630: Essays, ed. Rossella Vodret. Milan, 2012, pp. 208–209 (ill.); p. 223 (ill.); 227, no. 146.

Kindly share your feedback or any additional information, as this record is still a work in progress and may need further refinement.

Suggest Feedback