Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
around 1599 | Jacopo Negretti, gen. Palma il Giovane
Salome, daughter of Herodias, is depicted here shortly before handing over the head of John the Baptist to her mother and Herod. Light illuminates the figure of the melancholy looking girl, whose beauty and elegance is emphasised by means of thickly applied and soft brush-strokes. It is assumed that one of Titian’s late works is the model for this painting, which Palma had perhaps been able to admire in the collection of the Venetian Bartolomeo della Nave.
Salome, daughter of Herodias, is depicted here shortly before handing over the head of John the Baptist to her mother and Herod. Light illuminates the figure of the melancholy looking girl, whose beauty and elegance is emphasised by means of thickly applied and soft brush-strokes. It is assumed that one of Titian’s late works is the model for this painting, which Palma had perhaps been able to admire in the collection of the Venetian Bartolomeo della Nave.
Artist:
Jacopo Negretti, gen. Palma il Giovane (1544 - 1628 Venedig) DNB
Time:
around 1599
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
92 cm × 76 cm
Framed (gallery frame with inscriptions): 107 cm × 90,8 cm × 6,6 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 39
Provenance
Coll. Nicolas Régnier, Venice; 1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; 1659 Coll. Leopold Wilhelm; 1735 documented in the gallery