Judith with the Head of Holofernes

c. 1500/1505

Girolamo Mocetto after Andrea Mantegna

Associated Names
Girolamo Mocetto

Artist, Italian, c. 1458 - c. 1531

Andrea Mantegna

Artist After, Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

This print shows two women standing closely together. The woman on the left has curly, shoulder-length hair and is dressed in a long, draped garment. Her right arm is holding what appears to be the severed head of a bearded man with curly hair. She is leaning forward, placing the head into a bag which the woman on the right is holding open for her. Both women are looking downward towards the head. The woman on the right appears slightly older, and she wears a headscarf and a dress with designs around the hem. Both women have sandals on their feet. The background depicts a scene with trees on the left, distant architectural structures on the right, and an empty sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.9 x 20.9 cm (12 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1968.14.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.164, no. 10, State ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 252.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 21, repro.

2018

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

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.148.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.21.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and ink: Andrea Mantegna fecit

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q65508626

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