Inscription: Signed (upper left): Benj-Constant

Hammeraly family; Mrs. Oliver Crocker Sturns, Boston; her brother, Mr. Smith, Vermont; his son, Curtiss R. Smith, Vermont (sold to Gombos); J. E. Gombos, Upper Montclair, N.J. (until 1959)

San Jose Museum of Art. "Americans Abroad: Painters of the Victorian Era," December 5, 1975–January 10, 1976, unnumbered cat.

Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. "XIX Century." French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2, New York, 1966, pp. 206–7, ill., comment that it seems to portray Judith after the beheading of Holofernes; mention two other versions of Judith by the artist [see Notes], as well as a possible third version exhibited in the Salon of 1886; note that the plaster frame is inscribed in Arabic "There is no God but God" and is probably original.

Art d'Orient, tableaux orientalistes. Hôtel Drouot, Paris. May 14, 2001, p. 40, under no. 94, notes that Benjamin-Constant painted numerous versions of this theme.

19th Century European Art. Christie's, London. June 17, 2004, p. 119, under no. 105.

Benjamin-Constant painted several versions of this subject, including one shown in the Salon of 1886 and another formerly with the dealer Goupil & Cie, Paris (1885–87; stock no. 17442; sold to Albert Fillion). There is, in the Department of European Paintings files, a photograph of what appears to be a version of the subject in a frame similar to the Museum's (Haber collection, Paramus, N.J., in 1964).