Jazet after Horace Vernet

Judith and Holofernes

14 x 17 inches

Mezzotint engraving by Jazet after the oil painting by Horace Vernet; published in Paris circa 1850.

In this disturbing scene we see Judith hovering over the drunken and dozing Holofernes, weilding a sabre and contemplating his imminenet decapitation.