Judith with the Head of Holofernes, and a Vision of the Virgin and Child Casting Out Evil, c. 1749, Gottfried Bernhard Göz; Artist: Formerly attributed to Unknown Italian, 5 3/4 x 6 13/16 in. ( x cm) (sheet), Pen, brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, Germany, 18th century, This wash drawing is a preparatory study for one of Gottfried Bernhard Göz's painted church ceilings, which were fixtures of 18th-century Bavaria. (The wash technique is oddly appropriate: Holofernes had subjugated Judith's people by cutting off their water supply, and it will be restored with his

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