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Salome dancing before Herod

Oil Painting
ca. 1740 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An oil painting depicting Salome dancing before Herod in a crowded, elaborately decorated banquet hall.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleSalome 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.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 40.3cm
  • Estimate width: 62cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Styles
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
Collection
Accession number
483-1882

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Record createdOctober 5, 2006
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