[2] The painting depicts the famous Biblical scene of the judgement of Solomon, when the Hebrew king had to face two women who disputed the same child.

The scene takes place in a very dark interior, where the figures are dimly illuminated, in a typical chiaroscuro.

A executioner with a moustache, wearing only a loincloth, helds the living child by one of his feet, and has a sword in the other hand.

He seems to be about to split the surviving child in half, so that no women can claim to be his mother anymore, like Solomon had decided.

It is now held in the Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, whose purchase of it in 1970 was funded by the Laurence H. Favrot Bequest.