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Susanna and the Elders

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Susanna and the Elders

Gerrit van Honthorst

early 17th–mid 17th century

Medium

Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper; framing line in pen and brown ink, by a later hand

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Dimensions

sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 9/16 in. (21 x 29.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Gift of Dr. Mortimer Sackler and Theresa Sackler and Family and Van Day Truex Fund, 2006

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Gerrit van Honthorst

1592–1656 • Dutch Republic

The most well-known painter of the Utrecht Caravaggists, he is famed for his night scenes and dramatic lighting; later in his career he was in demand as a portraitist.

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