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Salomé

A work made of black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper.
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  • A work made of black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper.

Date:

1605/10

Artist:

Hans von Aachen
German, c. 1552-1615

About this artwork

This late drawing reveals the melding of northern and southern Baroque influences that characterized the cosmopolitan court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612). The drawing may relate to a painting of this subject, now lost, that was listed in the Emperor’s inventory.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Hans von Aachen

Title

Salomé

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1600–1610

Medium

Black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Guido Reni 1622"

Dimensions

18.9 × 14.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments

Reference Number

1991.122

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