Keywords: Andrea Mantegna or Follower (Possibly Giulio Campagnola) - Judith with the Head of Holofernes - Google Art Project.jpg of King Charles the First's Capital Collection of Pictures Limnings Statues Bronzes Medals and Other Curiosities</i> London 1757 which was said to have been obtained in exchange for two works that had belonged to the Third Earl of Pembroke a portrait of a young woman and a religious work by Parmigianino The Raphael Judith is thus mentioned twice in connection with these two other works First it appears in item no 15 A moddest forward full-faced painted younge womans picture onely a head halfe soe bigg as the life wch your-Matie togeither with the 2 Children of Permencius had in way of Exchange for the little Judith of Rafell Urbin when you were Prince of the late decd Lo of Penbrooke Steward of your Mats houshould painted upon the right light The <i>Judith</i> is mentioned again in item no 26 Item a peece of 2 naked Children imbraceing one another signifying Christ and St John in-the desart said to bee don by Parmentius Chaunged by yor Maty with my Lo Steward Pembrooke decd for a Judith beeing a little intire figure said to have been don by Raphael d'Urben quoted from Oliver Millar Abraham van der Doort's Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I <i>Walpole Society</i> 37 1960 79 81 But Millar 1960 232 rejecting Passavant's identification has suggested that the Judith in the inventory may be identifiable with Giorgione's well-known painting of the heroine in the State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg The painting's inclusion in a 1992 exhibition about Lorenzo de' Medici's Giardino di San Marco reflected its occasional identification with a small panel painting of Judith by Mantegna listed in the 1492 inventory of Lorenzo's collection This work was similar in scale and function to NGA 1942 9 42 that is una tavoletta small panel in una cassetta box dipinti su una Giudetta chon la testa d'Oloferno e una serva opera d'Andrea Squarcione i e Mantegna Libro d'inventario 1992 51 Paul Kristeller <i>Andrea Mantegna</i> trans S Arthur Strong London and New York 1901 20-21 who did not regard the NGA painting as Mantegna's listed Lorenzo's little panel of the same subject among the artist's lost or missing works Lionello Venturi Pitture italiane in America Milan 1931 and expanded English ed <i>Italian Paintings in America</i> trans Countess van den Heuvel and Charles Marriott 3 vols New York and Milan 1933 2 pl 340 note first identified the NGA painting with Lorenzo's picture and Hans Tietze Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika Vienna 1935 328 and English ed 1939 312 followed suit Though accepted hypothetically by Renata Cipriani <i>Tutta la pittura del Mantegna</i> 1st and 2nd ed Milan 1956 60 and English ed <i>All the Paintings of Mantegna</i> trans Paul Colacicchi 2 vols New York 1963 79 and by Rona Goffen in <i>Small Paintings of the Masters Masterpieces Reproduced in Actual Size Early Italian School</i> ed Leslie Shore 3 vols Redding Connecticut 1980 no 30 the identification was rejected by Erica Tietze-Conrat <i>Mantegna Paintings Drawings Engravings</i> New York 1955 245; Niny Garavaglia <i>L'opera completa del Mantegna</i> Milan 1967 109-110; and Ronald Lightbown <i>Mantegna</i> Oxford 1986 435 cat 30 2 The Getty Provenance Index provides the details about the listing in Agnew's stock The entry for the painting in the Duveen Brothers Records has the following notations 1/2 share Scott Fowles Sotheby 19/7/17 and Agnew 23/9/17 copy in NGA curatorial files; X Book Reel 422 Duveen Brothers Records accession number 960015 Research Library The Getty Research Institute Los Angeles According to Edward Fowles Memories of Duveen Brothers London 1976 127-129 a large collection of Italian paintings was offered on approval to Hamilton by 1920 but he did not purchase them and returned them to Duveen the following year 3 Widener collection records in NGA curatorial files give a purchase date of c 1921 but the Duveen Brothers Records list expenses for the painting into 1923 indicating they probably still had ownership until that time Paduan religious Old Testament special url_id NgFrm_BVSet7WA PD-old-100-1923 1506 DEFAULTSORT Mantegna Judith with the head of Holofernes Paintings of Judith with the head of Holofernes by Andrea Mantegna 00 Paintings of Judith and Holofernes 15th-century paintings of Judith 15th-century paintings of standing women at full length 15th-century tempera paintings of women Giulio Campagnola Widener Collection Google Art Project works by Andrea Mantegna or follower |