Explore the Provenance of this artwork, Susanna and the Elders (Gentileschi, Stamford).
The work may have been commissioned by papal nephew Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, which may explain the Bolognese style of the depiction. The painting has been listed as being in the Marquess of Exeter's family collection since at least the 1700s. It was listed in the 1763 Burghley inventory and was presumably acquired by Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter (1725 – 1793) while on the Grand Tour.
Ludovico Ludovisi Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter Grand Tour Marquess of Exeter