Herodias and Salome, 1631

Not on View

Medium

chiaroscuro woodcut printed in two shades of green and black on blue laid paper

Dimensions

block: 16.7 x 19 cm (6 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 19.6 x 21.6 cm (7 11/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 29, State i/iii

Accession Number

2004.67.3

Artists / Makers

Bartolomeo Coriolano (artist) Italian, active 1627/1653

Guido Reni (artist after) Bolognese, 1575 - 1642

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in tablet: GVIDO / RHENUS / SON.IN. / BART. COR. / ESQVES / F.; lower left in block: 1631. / Corio. f.

Provenance

Chatsworth Collection, Devonshire; (sale, Christie's London, 5 December 1985, no. 118). (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern); gift to NGA from anonymous donor, 2004.

Associated Names

Galerie Kornfeld

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2007: The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

2003: Galerie Kornfeld. Die Geschichte der Graphik von 1430 bis 1990 in ausgewählten Werken. Bern, 2003: no. 38.