Judith with the Head of Holofernes
According to the Book of Judith, the Jewish widow Judith saved the Israelites from the Assyrians by decapitating their general Holofernes, whose army had besieged her city. She did this after having made him drunk at a banquet. Judith is commonly depicted as being assisted by...
Drawing
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9874
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drawing
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stage
normalized
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provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 515, as Ferbis]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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pageCount
1
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import
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.253 |
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Medium
oil on canvas