Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist

Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist

Title

Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist

[cda 2019]

Painting on wood

Salome is depicted as a half-length figure, holding the head of St John in her hands. She is wearing a sumptuous dress decorated with gold brocade across the bib and along the hems. The sleeves are made less monotonous with decorative slits where the white undergarment puffs out beneath the

Salome is depicted as a half-length figure, holding the head of St John in her hands. She is wearing a sumptuous dress decorated with gold brocade across the bib and along the hems. The sleeves are made less monotonous with decorative slits where the white undergarment puffs out beneath the shoulder and at the elbows. In addition her hair has been pinned up above her head and she has both a double linked chain and a neckband set with precious stones, with dangling pearls and a pendant. A mountainous background is visible through the window.

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Halle 1972, No. 10]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, no. 38]

Production date
about 1525

Production date

about 1525

[Exhib. Cat. Halle 1972, No. 10]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 66 x 59 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 66 x 59 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. Halle 1972, No. 10]

  • Slightly different dimensions are recorded in the Moritzburg inventory:

  • 85 x 58 cm

  • [Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, revised 2019]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P320
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P320/

Provenance

  • property of a German noble family
  • confiscated and taken to the Moritzburg in Halle after the land reform of 1945 when the von der Schulenburg family were expropriated and their castle Burgscheidungen was seized by the state
  • returned to the owner (after 1972)
  • auctioned at Lempertz, Cologne, 19.05.2001, lot 1026 [1]
    [1][Pages from the auction catalogue; Koepplin Archive]
    [Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, revised 2019]

Exhibitions

Halle 1972, no. 10

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003 53, 173 038 Fig. p. 53
EditorBucerius Kunst Forum, Werner Schade
TitleLucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Moderne [Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg]
Place of PublicationOstfildern-Ruit
Year of Publication2003
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Halle 1972 10
EditorStaatliche Galerie Moritzburg
TitleLucas Cranach und die sächsische Malerei seiner Zeit
Place of PublicationHalle
Year of Publication1972
Show Literature
  • Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist, about 1525

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