Judith and Holofernes, is one of the three canvases exhibited in the Museum that were originally made to be placed as a piece of furniture, or as an overdoor. They were painted by Giovanni Battista Crosato, a painter and set designer of Venetian origins, who stayed periodically from 1733 in Piedmont, at the service of the Savoy court, working on the frescoes in the hunting lodge of Stupinigi, in Villa della Regina, in the Royal Palace and , as a set designer, at the Teatro Regio. The painter deals with the theme of biblical heroines, representing the stories of Judith and Holofernes, Giale and Sisara and Samson and Delilah, female figures united by the cunning with which they save their people from the enemy threat. Known above all as a frescante, Giovanni Battista Crosato undoubtedly had a prominent place in the eighteenth-century artistic panorama, developing his own personal language, characterized by a painting with a sparkling and rapid and, at the same time, elegant brushstroke. Features that also emerge well in the three canvases of the Museum, from the Masserano collection, in which each scene is framed in architectural backgrounds and finds its focal point in the female figure, the protagonist of the biblical episode represented.