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Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Attributed to: Giovanni Antonio da Brescia (Italian, active c. 1490–1520)
Attributed to: Zoan Andrea (Italian, about 1475–1519 or later)
After: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
Attributed to: Zoan Andrea (Italian, about 1475–1519 or later)
After: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
about 1490-1507
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 31.1 × 22.6 cm (12 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of Gustav Mayer
Accession Number20.5438
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (as Zoan Andrea) V, 63, 5; Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) XIII, 295, 1; Illustrated Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) 2509.001, only state; Passavant (as Zoan Andrea) V, 80, 1
DescriptionBartsch and Hind considered Giovanni Antonio da Brescia and Zoan Andrea to be two different artists. Suzanne Boorsch ("Mantegna and his Printmakers" in Jane Martineau, ed., "Andrea Mantegna" (London, 1992)), posits that Zoan Andrea and Giovanni Andrea da Brescia are the same person, an opinion first expressed by Jean Duchesne in 1819.
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in black ink, an unidentified mark; verso, left center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceGustav Mayer (b. 1871 - d. 1948), Berlin; 1920, gift of Gustav Mayer to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: August 18, 2023)