Suzanne in the bath
Suzanne in the bath
3D
Published 2019-01-25T12:36:39+00:00
This is a marble sculpture depicting Susanna, whose story is included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
As the story goes, a fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the garden unless she agrees to have sex with them.
She refuses to be blackmailed and is arrested and about to be put to death for promiscuity when the young Daniel interrupts the proceedings, shouting that the elders should be questioned to prevent the death of an innocent. After being separated, the two men are cross-examined about details of what they saw but disagree about the tree under which Susanna supposedly met her lover. The false accusers are put to death and virtue triumphs.
| Date published | 25/01/2019 |
| Title | Suzanne in the bath |
| Date | 1851-1900 |
| Dimension | 42,5cm x 67cm x 35cm |
| Accession | Inv. 2013.1.1 |
| Medium | White marble |
| Record | https://www.augustins.org/fr/les-collections/sculptures/xix-debut-xxe/panorama-des-oeuvres/-/oeuvre/67693509 |
| Artist | Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière |
| Place | Musée des Augustins |
