Is is held now in the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, in Venice.

The original title of the artwork, as Lodovico Dolce says,[1] is Judith, representing the heroine of the deuterocanonical book with the same name.

It was originally on the façade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, rebuilt in 1508 after the previous building was destroyed by fire.

The frescoes were to represent symbols of Venice's autonomy, since they were painted at a time of conflict between the Republic and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

[1] Damaged by the humid and brackish climate of the lagoon, the frescoes were taken off the walls during the twentieth century, so that in 1967 Judith was finally placed into Ca' d'Oro.