Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio's treatment of the subject in the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, would appear to have provided the inspiration for this composition, particularly in the pose of Holofernes.¹ An attribution to Louis Finson has been suggested.

¹ https://www.barberinicorsini.org/en/opera/judith-beheading-holofernes/