Maidservant from a 'Denial of St Peter' (fragment)

manner of Bartolomeo Manfredi (Ustiano c.1580 – Rome 1620). Oil painting on canvas, Maidservant from a 'Denial of St Peter' (fragment) by a imitator of Bartolomeo Manfredi (Ustiano c.1580 – Rome 1620) possibly French School, circa 1620.The composition shows the figure of the servant woman, in profile, wearing a turban and pointing with her right arm towards the left. A soldier, in a plumed hat, sits in the shadows in the background, on the left, and behind the woman, on the right, another soldier stands, helmeted and in armour. A portion of brown drapery can be seen at bottom left and the figure, which originally would have formed the left half of an oblong composition, and possibly could have been St Peter, has been cut away. After Christ's arrest, Caiphus, the High Priest questioned him in his house. Meanwhile, Peter was standing in the courtyard when a maidservant recognised him. She is pointing saying; "You were there too, with this man from Nazareth, this Jesus." Peter denied knowing Christ three times as the cock crowed, as Christ had predicted. Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)