About This Artwork

Hans von Aachen
German, c. 1552-1615

Salomé, 1605/10

Black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper
189 x 148 mm
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Guido Reni 1622"
Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments, 1991.122

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, February 3-March 3, 1993 (installation).

Ownership History

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798), Amsterdam, dry-stamp (Lugt 2034) verso. Hill-Stone Inc., New York [according to documentation in curatorial file]. Sold by Lutz Riester, London and New York, to the Art Institute, 1991.