| Women Gladiators | |
| Other Language 1: | Spanish |
| Other Title 1: | Combate de Mujeres |
| Artist: | Jusepe de Ribera |
| Year: | 1636 |
| Type: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 235 |
| Width Metric: | 212 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Madrid |
Women Gladiators (Spanish: Combate de Mujeres) is a painting by Jusepe de Ribera made in oil on canvas. It is conserved in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.[1]
The painting, dated and signed, was made in Naples in 1636, as part of a series of over thirty pictures on the history of Rome commissioned to Giovanni Lanfranco, Domenichino, Ribera himself, and other artists.
The painting depicts a legendary episode occurred at Naples in 1552. Two women, Isabella of Carazzi and Diambra of Pottinella, in the presence of the Marquis of the Vast dispute in a duel for the love of a man called Fabio Zeresola. The subject matter of the painting has also been held to be an allegory of the fight between Vice and Virtue.