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

Textiles

c. 1590

Switzerland

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Panel (Judith with the head of Holofernes, Possibly from an Altar Frontal)
Place: Switzerland (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1580–1610
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
Inscriptions: Inscription: On ribbons: IVD ITH Above the wreath: H 30
Dimensions: 51.5 × 99.1 cm (20 1/4 × 39 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
Reference Number: 1895.148
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Bessie Bennett, “The Decorative Arts Department,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 1 (Jan. 1933): 22 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Vestments and Liturgical Textiles from the Permanent Collection, July 27–Oct. 9, 1983.
Art Institue of Chicago, Aldsorf Gallery, Department of European Decorative Arts, June 24, 2005-Dec. 7, 2005.

Martin A. Ryerson, from 1894 [purchased in Europe; this and the following recorded in Day Book 1, 105; memo R5770, Nov. 1935, no. 60]; given to the Antiquarian Society, Mar. 25, 1895; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1895.

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