Closed
Free
Susanna and the Elders
Massimo Stanzione (Italian, Neapolitan, 1585–1656)
Title
Susanna and the Elders
Artist
Massimo Stanzione (Italian, Neapolitan, 1585–1656)
Date
c. 1631–37
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
60 × 70 1/4 in. (152.4 × 178.4 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Collectors' Choice, 1983
Object Number
1983.27
On View
On view
Provenance
Probably by descent to his son, Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), Margam Castle, Port Talbot, Wales, 1824–1890;
By descent to his daughter, Emily Charlotte Talbot (1840–1918), Margam Castle, Port Talbot, Wales, 1890–1918;
By descent to the trustees of her estate, 1918–October 29, 1941;
Purchased at the Emily Charlotte Talbot estate sale, Margam Castle, Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, Christie’s, London, October 29, 1941, lot 375, by Louis Tussaud Waxworks, Ltd., Blackpool, London, 1941–December 1, 1978;
Purchased at his sale, Christie’s, London, December 1, 1978, lot 59, by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, stock book no. 9400, 1978–September 26, 1983;
Purchased from Thomas Agnew & Sons by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1983.
Exhibition History
Master Paintings, 1470–1820, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1982, no. 40.
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, February 17–May 5, 2002; Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, September 19–December 8, 2002, no. 36.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Margam Castle, Port Talbot, Glamorganshire: Catalogue of Pictures by Old Masters, Modern Pictures and Drawings and Ancient Marbles, Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Will of the Late Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot (London: Christie, Mason & Woods, 1941), 15.
Master Paintings, 1470–1820, exh. cat. (London: Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1982), no. 40
Richard Verdi, “London Summer Exhibitions,” Burlington Magazine 124 (1982), 518–21.
John Taylor, “Italian Masterpiece Top Choice: Museum Patrons Pick Latest Purchase,” Omaha World-Herald, 1983.
Silvia Cassani, Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, exh. cat. (Napoli: Electa, 1984), 1: 1278.
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European and American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 48, 49, (repro.).
Sebastian Schütze and Thomas Willette, Massimo Stanzion: L’opera complete (Napoli: Electa, 1992), no. A86.
Annette Dixon, Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons, exh. cat. (New York: Merell Publishers, 2002), 91, (repro).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 82–83, (repro.).
