date inscribed Presented by the artist through the American Federation of Arts 1969
Size: support: 2667 x 4572 mm
Medium: Oil paint, pigments and glue on canvas
watsonian explanations are good except when they're bad and doylist explanations are fun except when they're boring and i decide how i feel about each one based on how many hours of sleep i've gotten
contrary to the title, this painting more likely depicts judith - the woman who was able to behead a drunken assyrian general that was to destroy her home, holofernes, after he allowed her to enter his tent due to his great desire for her. her story, in the book of judith, was removed from the early christian bible and she was instead depicted as a type of the praying virgin.