In the context of Susanna and the Elders (Artemisia Gentileschi, Pommersfelden), analyze the Provenance of the History.
The painting was in the collection of the artist Benedetto Luti by 1715, as he made mention of it in a letter that year to his patron Hofrat Bauer von Heffenstein, who was a councilor to Lothar Franz von Schönborn, archbishop of Mainz. By 1719, the painting was part of the Schönborn collection. Joseph Heller's 1845 guidebook to the Schönborn collection at Pommersfelden included the first published attribution to Artemisia.
Benedetto Luti Mainz Pommersfelden