Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

1825/1835

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Associated Names
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Artist, Venetian, 1762 - 1844

The image shows the upper half of a figure, focusing on a young woman who is looking at the viewer. Her facial features are delicately rendered with soft shading. Her hair is styled in an updo with accessories. She is dressed in a flowing garment with folds, highlighted with color. She is holding a platter with a man's head. In the background, there is a sketched figure of an older man. The background features earthy colors.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor and brown-gray wash over black chalk, with touches of red chalk in Salom's lips and by her mouth, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.8 x 24 cm (11 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2010.93.22

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Helene C. Seiferheld, New York). Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Italian Drawings 1780-1890. The American Federation of the Arts, New York, 1980, no. 13 (cat. by Roberta J. M. Olson).

1991

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991, no. 70 (cat. by Frederick A. den Broeder).

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 110-111, no. 44 (entry by Ginger Crockett Hammer).

Inscriptions

typescript label attached at lower right: by Bisson; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 3/3/-

Watermarks

crescent moon

Wikidata ID

Q64572481

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