The judgment of Solomon after an original drawing of Paul Veronese / [graphic]

"Solomon enthroned on the left, wearing a crown like a mitre, pointing ahead, where a man stands holding a knife in one hand, a baby in the other, suspending it in the air between two women, who claim it, one of whom kneels near the king, gesturing towards the child and looking back pleadingly towards Solomon; courtiers and colonnaded buildings all around, a falconer with a bird on his wrist on the far left."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state