# Judith Victorious [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Beech panel, 75 x 56 cm ## Commentary The Jagdschloss Grunewald is a relatively modest hunting lodge in Berlin begun by the Kurfürst Joachim II of Brandenburg in the early sixteenth century. It is located in the woods, close to the city's suburbs. Many Dutch, Flemish, and German painting - mostly dating between the sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries - decorates the building. One of these paintings is Cranach's Judith Victorious, which shows a lighthearted heroine. There are other version of this subject, among them one in Kassel. Comparing the two, the Berlin Judith seems more coquettish, she is turned further to the left and looks at the viewer through the corners of her eyes. The Kassel figure, placed more firmly frontally on in the scene, seems simpler and more clear-cut. ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion]() - [A Prince of Saxony]() - [A Princess of Saxony]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()