Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, c. 1580

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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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2010.93.18

Artists / Makers

Northern Italian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

McCrindle, Joseph F.

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).