Signed lower right: Matheo gallardo / f_
Inscribed centre left: IAHEL

Provenance
Fórum Filatélico Collection, Madrid. Sold later at Sotheby's, London, "Old Master & British Paintings", 29 April 2015 (lot 570, illus. on p. 129 of the catalogue).

Bibliography
- Angulo Íñiguez, Diego, and Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E, "Historia de la pintura española. Escuela madrileña del segundo tercio del siglo XVII", Madrid, Instituto Diego Velázquez, csic, 1983, p. 67.
- Mónica Walker Vadillo, "Jael y Sísara", Base de datos digital de Iconografía Medieval, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Sisera was a cruel Canaanite leader who ruled the Israelites for twenty years. Barak defeated his nine hundred charioteers. Sisera escaped and sought refuge in the tent of Jael. She gave the terrified Canaanite sanctuary. When he fell asleep, she drove a tent peg into his brain. The act fulfilled the prediction of Debora, prophetess and Israelite leader, who foresaw that a woman would slay Sisera.