Panel (Judith with the head of Holofernes, Possibly from an Altar Frontal)

Switzerland

textileneedlework (visual works)

Date

c. 1590

Medium

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, linen, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen in back, a variety of buttonhole, chain, square chain, cross, long-armed cross, eyelet, herring bone, threaded herringbone, knotted, interlocking lace, overcast, running, double running, satin, and stem stitches; couching; edged with linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped linen bobbin lace

Dimensions

51.5 × 99.1 cm (20 1/4 × 39 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Martin A. Ryerson

Also notable

Works in the same vein

Landscape, Switzerland

Adolphe Braun French, 1811–1877

"Neutral" Switzerland

Pavel Sokolov-Skalya (Born Strel'nia, 1899; died Moscow, 1961) Vasilii Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach (Born Moscow, 1898; died Moscow, 1949)