This is perhaps the strangest Susanna painting I’ve come across so far. The Elders get quite close and personal, more than in any other execution of the motif so far, yet it remains somehow abstract, stylized, like a choreographed dance. The life-size painting is located at the Musée Magnin in Dijon.

Alessandro Allori: Venus Disarming Cupid, before 1570, 261×181cm, Musée Fabre, Montpellier.