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Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
Salome danced seductively for King Herod, and, as a reward, she was granted a wish. Urged on by her mother Herodias, Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist, who had criticized Herodias’ adultery with the king. Salome is showing us her prize, the saint’s head on a platter.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73C1338
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73C1338
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1524
- 1524
Place-Time
- first quarter 16th century
Places
- Amsterdam
- Amsterdam
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.41
Provenance
- …; ? estate inventory, Albertina Agnes (1634-1696), Princess of Orange Nassau, Frisian Stadtholder’s court, Leeuwarden, January/February 1681, no. 901 (‘Een viercante, schoone schilderie met het hooft van Johannes, door Quintus Massius’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 112.} ...; ? estate inventory, Schloss Oranienstein, Dietz, 1684, ‘In ihro hochheit der hertzogin vorcammer’, no. 74 (‘Item eine schillerey van Johannes, worunter noch ein klein stückgen von gethierts ohne leist’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 123.} estate inventory, Schloss Oranienstein, Dietz, 1726, ‘In the great gallery’, no. 344 (‘Herodis tochter mit dem haupt Johannes von I.M.A. gemahlt 1524’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 372.} transferred from Schloss Oranienstein, Dietz, to the collection Willem V (1748-1806), Kabinet van Schilderijen [Gallerij Willem V], Het Buitenhof, The Hague, as Timoteo da Urbino, 1775;{De Stuers, 1874, p. 3, no. 1.} described in this collection, before 1793, no. 193, as Timoteo da Urbino (‘De Danseres van Herodes, houdende het Hoofd van Johannes, voor haar in een Schotel, in de manier van Raphaël, gemerkt met deze volgende letters I W A 1524, op paneel, in een zwarte lijst met vergulde bies. Hoog: 2 voet, 3½ duim, Breed: 1 voet, 8½ duim [72 x 53.6 cm].’);{Annotations by T.P.C. Haag edited into an undated catalogue of the paintings by F. ten Dall. The last written annotation is dated 1793; see Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer III, 1976, p. 241, no. 193.} confiscated by the French and taken to Paris, 1795;{De Stuers 1874, p. V.} ? repossessed and transferred to the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen, The Hague, 1815;{De Stuers 1874, p. VII.} on loan to the museum from the Mauritshuis, The Hague, since 1948; on loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2004-10
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8172
- SK-C-1349
Extent
- height 71.8 cm
- width 53.6 cm
- height 83.8 cm
- width 66.5 cm
- thickness 5.5 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1524
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:17:38.990Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:20.842Z