# Susanna and the Elders [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BATONI, Pompeo]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 99 x 136 cm ## Commentary The present Susanna and the Elders is a testament to Batoni's considerable stature: he was the dominant painter in Rome in the middle years of the 18th century. His contemporaries recognized this preeminence, a position which Batoni maintained for a period of nearly fifty years. The canvas was painted by the artist in 1751 for Ernst Guido, Graf von Harrach, one of the most important collectors of the day, and remained in the family's collection for nearly 250 years. The Susanna and the Elders is inarguably one of Batoni's finest history pictures and one of his very few treatments of an Old Testament subject. ## Related artworks - [A Knight in Rome: Charles Cecil Roberts]() - [Achilles and the Centaur Chiron]() - [Allegory of Mercy and Truth]() - [Don José Moñino y Redondo, Count of Floridablanca]() - [Hercules at the Crossroads \(detail\)]() - [Hercules at the Crossroads]() - [Hercules at the Crossroads]() - [Holy Family]() - [Holy Family]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Portrait of Charles Crowle]() - [Portrait of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()