Panel (Judith with the head of Holofernes, Possibly from an Altar Frontal)
Switzerland
- 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.)
- Department
- Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson