Lot Essay
This is another version of the artist's drawing of the same subject in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, E. Schaar, Rembrandt und sein Jahrhundert, Niederländische Zeichnungen in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, 1994/5, p. 189, no. 123, illustrated p. 119. In that drawing Susanna's legs are differently positioned, while the elders are closer to her. However the present figure of Susanna is closely comparable to that of Bathseba in the British Museum, London (B. Gaethgens, Adriaen van der Werff 1659-1722, Munich, 1987, p. 416, fig. B3a), which is a preliminary study for a picture (present whereabouts unknown).