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Artemisia Gentileschi · c.1615

Judith and Her Maidservant (Palazzo Pitti)

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Judith in a gold-trimmed dark bodice and cream sleeves, a sword on her shoulder, glances aside while her maidservant in a billowing white turban carries the head of Holofernes in a basket, against a dark ground. Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

Up to 8 × 10 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

8″10″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Judith and Her Maidservant (Palazzo Pitti)

The painting is first documented in an inventory of 1638 as belonging to Grand Duchess Maria Maddalena of Austria. It has been altered several times and was probably considerably larger when first painted, especially at the top and the left side.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence and she had an international clientele. Gentileschi worked as an expatriate painter in the court of Charles I of England from 1638 to 1642, but she is thought to have fled the country in the early phases of the English Civil War. Her whereabouts over the following years are unknown, but she resurfaced in Naples during 1649. Her last known letter to one of her mentors was dated to 1650 and it indicates that she was still working as an artist. Her time of death is disputed, but her last known commission was in January 1654.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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