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Greuter Matthaeus - Jael with the Sisera's Head - Etching on paper (1586) - Jael with the Sisera's Head is a copper engraving on laid paper in 1586 by the German engraver Matthaeus Greuter. Representing one of the terrible heroines of the Old Testament, Giaele , whose story is told in the Book of Judges. After attracting Sisara, the Canaanite general defeated by the people of Israel, into his tent, he kills him in his sleep by sticking a nail in his skull. This moment is described in this small but very refined etching. Monogrammed and dated on plate on the lower left margin, and indications of the names of the characters on plate. In good conditions, except for a diffused foxing. A cream-colored passepartout is included (cm 31.7 x 24). A copy of this original print is preserved at the British Museum in London. Reference : G + W Denzel u. Georg Hamminger (Lugt 1159).