Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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Nothing on the woman says Judith. Pearls, ermine, loose hair suit any rich sitter, and the Prado's own catalogues called her Queen Artemisia from 1857 to 1907 — the nautilus cup holding her husband's ashes, not Holofernes's wine. What fixes the subject is one object in the dark behind her: an old servant in a white turban, holding a sack open for a head not yet cut off.
X-radiography found the servant is painted over another woman, who stood between mistress and maid until azurite and enamel blue covered her in the seventeenth century. The name arrived with the bag.
Sources: Museo Nacional del Prado, object page P002132 (catalogue text after T. Posada Kubissa, Pintura holandesa en el Museo Nacional del Prado. Catalogo razonado, 2009) · CODART, 'Dutch Painting in the Spanish Royal Collections', curator's feature · Museo Nacional del Prado, easy-to-read text for 'Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes'
And she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared for her.
Judith 12:19 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 30,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.