1943.651: John and Salome; verso: illegible sketch
DrawingsThis black ink drawing shows two figures side-by-side. On the right is Princess Salome, wearing a long, richly-decorated gown, her breasts and midriff left exposed. On her head is a coiled, filigree-like hairpiece with protruding horns. She looks to her right and speaks to the other figure, the prophet John the Baptist, who wears a simple black gown. John’s long, unruly black hair drapes over his bare shoulder as he looks down, returning Salome’s gaze.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.651
- People
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, British (Brighton, England 1872 - 1898 Menton, France)
- Title
- John and Salome; verso: illegible sketch
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Salome
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1893
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297868
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink and graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
- Dimensions
- 23.3 x 16.4 cm (9 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Zatlin 867
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.651
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Joseph Pennell, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1923), no. 34
- A.M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the Imagination: Fantasy in Art and Literature from Blake to Dali, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1981), p. 102, repr. fig. 83
- Frederick Hartt, Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), fig. 1161, p. 878
- Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1990), p. 119, fig. 75
- Mark Samuels Lasner, "The Pursuit of the Rare: Three Early Beardsley Collectors", Gazette of the Grolier Club (2000), no. 51, p. 17, note 34
- Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 48-5, repr. (color)
- Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), vol. 2, no. 867, pp. 6, 11, 21, 23-25, 32, 47, repr. p. 24
Exhibition History
- An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, Brooklyn Museum, 12/19/1923 - 01/31/1924; Milwaukee Art Institute, 10/01/1924 - 10/30/1924; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 11/01/1924 - 11/30/1924; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, 11/29/1924 - 12/31/1924
- Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
- 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/17/2016 - 11/01/2017
Verification Level
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