Salome dancing before Herod
Oil Painting
ca. 1740 (painted)
ca. 1740 (painted)
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An oil painting depicting Salome dancing before Herod in a crowded, elaborately decorated banquet hall.
Object details
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| Title | Salome dancing before Herod (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on copper |
| Brief description | Oil Painting, 'Salome dancing before Herod', Johann Georg Platzer, ca. 1740 |
| Physical description | An oil painting depicting Salome dancing before Herod in a crowded, elaborately decorated banquet hall. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'JGP' (Signed in monogram on musical instrument, lower right) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by John Jones |
| Object history | Bequeathed by John Jones, 1882 |
| Production | This is one of a pair with St John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness (484-1882). |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Associated object | 483:2-1882 (Frame) |
| Bibliographic reference | Kauffmann, C.M. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 222-223, cat. no. 275 |
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| Accession number | 483-1882 |
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| Record created | October 5, 2006 |
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