Elisabetta Sirani, "Timoclea Putting Alexander’s Captain Down the Well ", 1659

A striking image of early feminist art?

The story from Plutarch

Timoclea (Wikipedia)

Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) - Wikipedia

See also “Elisabetta Sirani’s Timoclea and Visual Precedent,” on Researchgate, by Amy Golahny, Richmond Professor of Art History and Chair, Art Department, Lycoming College, Williamsport PA 

Engraving of 1629–30 by Matthäus Merian (book illustration):

William Painter,
The Palace of Pleasure (1575):

Timoclia of Thebes.

Timoclia, a gentlewoman of Thebes, vnderstandinge the couetous desire of a Thracian knight, that had abused hir, and promised her mariage, rather for her goods than loue, well acquited hir selfe from his falshoode.