GIROLAMO TROPPA | JUDITH DISPLAYING THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES TO THE BETHULIANS

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassy;

Thence by bequest to his secretary, Sir Henry Strachey (1737-1810), 1st Bt. Sutton Court;

Thence by descent;

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Nobleman"), London, Sotheby's, 27 April 2006, lot 83 (as French School, 17th Century);

There acquired.

E. Schleier, "Nuove proposte per Girolamo Troppa pittore," in Arte Cristiana, May-October 2012, pp. 253-255, reproduced figs. 18-19 (as Roman School, late seventeenth century, possibly attributed to Girolamo Troppa). 

We are grateful to Francesco Petrucci for endorsing the attribution to Troppa on the basis of photographs and for suggesting that this painting can be dated to the artist's first years in Rome, circa 1660-1665.