Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist

c. 1580

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white gouache and squared for transfer in black chalk, on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 42.4 x 47.7 cm (16 11/16 x 18 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.93.18

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

N. Lanier [1588-1666], London (L. 2285); unidentified collector's mark P. (Hans Calmann, London); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings Form and Function. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1974, no. 39 (as Attributed to Raffaello Motta, called Raffaellino da Reggio)(cat. by Edmund Pillsbury and John Caldwell).

1991

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991, no. 34 (as North Italian, Lombardy)(cat. by Frederick A. den Broeder).

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 30-31, no. 4 (entry by Carolina Mangone).

Inscriptions

by a later hand, lower right in black chalk (faded): Taddeo Zuccaro (Milanese) / duomo[?] di Milano

Wikidata ID

Q64618517

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