Gallery label
A second Brazilian painter translates Pedro Américo's monumental Judith into a smaller canvas whose private survival reveals another route through the tradition.
Look closely
The copy compresses Américo's vertical theater while retaining the emphatic raised arm and trophy at Judith's feet. Reduced scale turns public rhetoric into a more intimate object.
Why this Judith matters
Copies are evidence of demand, teaching, circulation, and memory. The uncertain date and workshop are reasons for caution on the map, not exclusion from it.
Sources for this record:Private-collection image / Wikimedia Commons file record ↗
“A second Brazilian painter translates Pedro Américo's monumental Judith into a smaller canvas whose private survival reveals another route through the tradition.”
Narrative index
Primary catalogue placement: display of the head, Judith 13:14–16. The index organizes comparison; it does not claim that every visual detail comes from those verses or that the work touches only one episode.
