Vermeyen, Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Title: Vermeyen, Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Rights: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Public Domain.
Creator: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (1500-1559)
Date: ca. 1525
Description: A woman, looks off to her left. She is wearing a deep, emerald green gown with red accents, an intricate gem necklace at her throat, her auburn hair braided and held back by an elaborate headpiece. In her right hand she holds a sword, and in her left she is twirling the auburn hair of the severed head of an older bearded man. She looks pensive and lost in her thoughts.
Format: Painting. Oil on panel. 65 x 47 cm
Publisher: Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contributor: Abigail P.
Subject: Biblical story; biblical scene; Judith; Holofernes; portrait of a woman; war general; decapitation; sword.
Source: Jpeg file. Unknown photographer. Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection. Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. https://jhna.org/articles/judith-with-the-head-of-holofernes-jan-cornelisz-vermeyen-earliest-signed-painting/, 3/21/20.