Displaying ‘Susanna and the Elders’<\/p>\n
Susanna and the Elders was first recorded in about 1639 \u2013 around the time the Queen\u2019s House interiors were being decorated \u2013 as hanging above the fireplace in Henrietta Maria\u2019s Withdrawing Chamber at Whitehall Palace. \u00a0<\/p>\n
With that interior now sadly lost, however, the Queen\u2019s House, as the only surviving domestic interior completed specifically for Henrietta Maria, makes an exceptionally apt setting for the painting. It is one which allows us to appreciate as best as possible within a real interior how the painting was originally intended to be seen.<\/p>\n
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Susanna and the Elders by Artemisia Gentileschi<\/a> on display in the King’s Presence Chamber in the Queen’s House. Painting of Susanna and the Elders by Artemisia Gentileschi \u00a9 Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2026 | Royal Collection Trust<\/p>\n The room we are displaying it in at the Queen\u2019s House, now called the King\u2019s Presence Chamber, was, in Henrietta Maria\u2019s day, her Withdrawing Chamber, the parallel space to the painting\u2019s original location at Whitehall Palace. Mimicking Henrietta Maria\u2019s placement of the painting above the fireplace, we too are displaying it on the chimney breast<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n Indeed, Artemisia seems to have had such a position in mind already when she was working on the painting, as Niko Munz and Adelaide Izat, whose research led to the painting\u2019s rediscovery, explain:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Displaying ‘Susanna and the Elders’ Susanna and the Elders was first recorded in about 1639 \u2013 around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-135188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}