# Judith and Her Maidservant [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GENTILESCHI, Artemisia]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 114 x 93.5 cm ## Commentary Judith and Her Maidservant 1614-20 Oil on canvas, 114 x 93.5 cm Galleria Palatina \(Palazzo Pitti\), Florence This grisly subject was enduringly popular. Once upon a time in Florence, the subject stood for the city's proud republicanism. By the time Gentileschi made this work, probably for Cosimo II de' Medici, Florence was a grand duchy and the Baroque, with all its monumental and realistic cruelty, held sway. ## Related artworks - [Bathsheba at her Bath]() - [Bathsheba]() - [Birth of St John the Baptist]() - [Clio, the Muse of History]() - [Danaë \(detail\)]() - [Danaë]() - [Jael and Sisera]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes \(detail\)]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Mary Magdalen]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()