 Although his religious paintings lacked inspiration, the "Susanna" contributed to Santerre's fifty-year reputation as a painter of the erotic nude, in which field he was the forerunner to François Boucher (1730–1770) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806).The "Susanna" and his "Portrait of a Lady in Venetian Costume" (Louvre) give a good impression of Santerre's taste and of his elaborate, refined and careful method.He died at Paris.