''Judith'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by
Simon Vouet, executed ''c.'' 1620–1625. It depicts
Judith, the leading character of the
Book of Judith
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells ...
, holding the severed head of king
Holofernes. She is shown finely dressed, holding her sword with her right hand, and showing the head of Holofernes at her left.
The painting is held at the
Alte Pinakothek in
Munich.
Judith, Alte Pinakothek
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Paintings by Simon Vouet
Vouet
Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and m ...
Collection of the Alte Pinakothek
1620s paintings