2-365-412 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Judith and Holofernes', 1870. After the painting of c1495 by Andrea Mantegna in the collection of the Louvre, Paris. The Jewish heroine Judith was living in Bethulia when it was besieged by the Assyrian army commanded by Holofernes. She inveigled herself into his tent, cut off his head and took it back to Bethulia, so saving the town. The incident is described in the book of Judith from the Apocrypha. A print from Les Chef D'oeuvre de la Peinture Italienne by Paul Mantz, Paris, 1870.