Judith with the Head of Holofernes

c. 1480

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and dark brown ink with black chalk and white heightening on olive-brown prepared paper laid down on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.8 x 20.2 cm (13 11/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.178

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955]; sold 26 June 1935 to the Samual H. Kress Foundation, New York, as by Mantegna; gift 1939 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 257.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2018

  • Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.

Bibliography

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 121, no. 289, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 245, repro. 144, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 133, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 72, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 25-26, fig. 57.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 214, repro., as Circle of Andrea Mantegna.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:299-300; 2:pl. 213, as Circle of Mantegna.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: no entry, but listed in accession number concordance and indexed, 469, 541.

1992

  • Even, Yael. "Mantegna's Uffizi Judith: The Masculinization of the Female Hero." Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 61, Häfte 1-2 (1992): fig. 5.

1997

  • Banzato, Davide, Maria Beltramini, and Davide Gasparatto, eds. Placchette, bronzetti e cristalli incisi dei Musei Civici di Vicenza, secoli XV-XVIII. Vicenza, 1997: 60.

2003

  • Avagnina, Maria Elisa, Margaret Binotto, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, eds. Pinacoteca civica di Vicenza: catalogo scientifico delle collezioni. Milan, 2003: 3:203.

2006

  • Rossi, Francesco, ed. Placchette e rilievi di bronzo nell'età del Mantegna. Exh. cat. Museo della Città di Palazzo San Sebastiano, Mantua, 2006: 30.

Wikidata ID

Q64562042

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