# Judith with the Head of Holofernes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERMEYEN, Jan Cornelisz.]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 65 x 47 cm ## Commentary Judith with the Head of Holofernes c. 1525 Oil on panel, 65 x 47 cm Private collection There are no records of where Vermeyen was trained as an artist. Opinions vary as to whether it was with Jan van Scorel, Bernard van Orley, or Jan Gossart. The early work by Vermeyen, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, establishes a link with Gossart: Vermeyen's Judith recalls Gossart's Magdalen in Boston, both exuding an unsettling sense of eroticism. ## Related artworks - [Felipe de Guevara]() - [Female Head]() - [Jean Carondelet]() - [Jean Carondelet]() - [Oriental Meal]() - [Portrait of an Older Man]() - [Seated Oriental Woman]() - [St Donatian]() - [St Jerome Meditating]() - [The Holy Family by a Fire]() - [The Holy Family]() - [The Marriage at Cana]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()