Marco di Antonio Palmeggiano, called Marco Palmezzano (c. 1460-1539)

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Details

Marco di Antonio Palmeggiano, called Marco Palmezzano (c. 1460-1539)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
signed and dated 'Marchus palmezanus pictor foroli..... faciebat MCCCCCXX VI'
oil on panel
21 x 34.5/8 in. (54 x 88 cm.)

Literature

J. Shearman, The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge, 1983, p. 181, under no. 183.

Lot Essay

The prime version, dated 1513 or 1514, is in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen (Shearman, op. cit., pp. 180-1, no. 183, pl. 161); this differs considerably in the heads of Judith and Holofernes, in the landscape and in showing a large tent in place of the left part of the background. Other versions are in the Muse Ariana, Geneva, signed and dated 1525, and at Berkeley Castle, dated 1536.

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