# Judith, in Jan Sanders van Hemessen's contemporaries

Jan Sanders van Hemessen painted this in about 1540. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> According to the biblical story, the widow Judith saved her people from being slaughtered by the Assyrian army by infiltrating the tent of the enemy general, Holofernes. She then seduced and beheaded him.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1540
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Dimensions: 99.1 × 77.2 cm (39 × 30 3/8 in.); Framed: 119.7 × 97.8 × 6.4 cm (47 1/8 × 38 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.1109
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jan Sanders van Hemessen](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jan-sanders-van-hemessen), Netherlandish

1 works in the collection.

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