Susanna and the Elders (Rubens)

Susanna and the Elders is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens executed in 1607 during his second stay in Rome, Italy. It is in the collection of the Galleria Borghese in Rome since at least the mid-17th century,. This is oldest treatment by Rubens of this subject, to which he returned multiple times. These versions include a youthful work from 1608, in Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid, a late period work in the Alte Pinakothek and other autograph versions some of which are lost, as well as workshop versions.