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 *niani Gallery. Another Judith by Mantegna in Collection of Earl of Pembroke.—Larousse, ix. 1071.

By Palma Vecchio, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, life-size, half-length. With a scimetar in right hand and head of Holofernes in left. Much injured by restoration.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 476.

By Girolamo Romanino, Berlin Museum; wood, H. 2 ft. 9 in. × 2 ft. 3 in. Judith, half-length, with the head of Holofernes in a charger; her maid looking on, and a soldier in armour asleep. Painted about 1510 (?) From Solly Collection.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 370.

By Paolo Veronese, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 1 in. Judith, figure to knees, giving the head of Holofernes to Abra, her black servant, who holds a bag to receive it; in background, tent of Holofernes. Engraved by Passini.—Gal. de Vienne, i. Pl. 42.

Judith and Holofernes, Artemesia Gentileschi, Palazzo Pitti.

JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES (apocryphal book of Judith), Artemisia Gentileschi, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 7 in. Judith, aided by her servant, is cutting off with a sword the head of Holofernes, who lies upon a couch in his tent.—Rosini, vi. 128.

By Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Rome; fresco on ceiling.

By Henri Regnault, Marseilles Museum. Judith, on the point of striking Holofernes, who lies in a drunken sleep upon his bed, the upper part of his body nude. Painted in Rome in 1869. Salon, 1869.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1881), xxiv. 94; Moniteur, Aug., 1869; Chaumelin, Art contemporain, 347; Larousse, ix. 1071.

By Tintoretto, Madrid Museum. Three pictures: 1. Judith, sword in hand, raising the covering of the bed on which Holofernes is lying; behind her, the servant with a sack. 2. Judith handing the head to the servant. 3. Judith replacing the bed-cover while the servant puts the head into the sack.—Madrazo; Larousse, ix. 1071.

By Horace Vernet, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 9 ft. 9 in. × 6 ft. 5 in.; signed, dated Rome, 1830. Judith, standing near the bed of Holofernes, is about to strike off his head. Salon, 1831. Collection of Louis Philippe. Formerly in Luxembourg. Study for head of Judith, J. H. Stebbins, New York.—Larousse, ix. 1071.

JUEL, JENS, born at Gamborg, Fünen, May 12, 1745, died in Copenhagen, Dec. 27, 1802. Portrait, landscape, and genre painter, pupil in Hamburg of Gehrmann, then of Copenhagen Academy; won first prize in 1771, went to Rome in 1772, to Paris in 1776, and to Geneva in 1777. Became court-painter in 1783; member of Copenhagen Academy in 1782, its director in 1795-98 and 1800-1. Works: Anointing of David (1771), Portraits of the Engraver Clemens (1776), of Artist and Wife (1791), of the Dwarf Bajocco, of Admiral Risbrick, of Abildgaard's Mother, six other portraits, Painter at Work, Fruits in a Niche, Approaching Storm, Copenhagen Gallery; Landscape, Young Seamstress, Schwerin Gallery; Male Portrait, National Gallery, Christiania; Portraits of Karl Bonet, King