Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist
Artistworkshop of
Guido Reni
(Italian, 1575 - 1642)
Dateca. 1639-42
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 75 x 60 in. (190.5 x 152.4 cm)
Frame: 88 1/2 × 73 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. (224.8 × 187.4 × 15.8 cm)
Frame: 88 1/2 × 73 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. (224.8 × 187.4 × 15.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN119
This painting, executed by an artist in Guido Reni's workshop, is one of two known adaptations of a late work by the maser now in the Art Institute of Chicago. The painter of this work has departed substantially from Reni's original, reversing the composition, removing several background figures, changing the palette to saturated primary colors, and adding dramatic contrasts of light and shadow. Some scholars have seen this as the work of Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610-1670), one of Reni's most important pupils and a friend and collaborator of Fra Bonaventura Bisi (for more on the Sirani family, see the next gallery of this exhibition).
On View
Not on viewWaagen. Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol. II (London: 1854) p. 87.
Earl of Yarborough Sale. Christies (July 12, 1929) cat no. 80.
Suida, William E. A Catalogue of Paintings in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota: 1949) cat. no. 119, ill p. 110.
"Stolen Drawings," Master Drawings, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1965) p. 291.
Reni, Guido. L'opera complete di Guido Reni (Milano: 1971) cat. no. 168.
Tomory, Peter. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings before 1800 (Sarasota: 1976) cat no. 132
Zeri, Frederico. Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Vol. II (Baltimore: 1976) p. 478.
Pepper, Stephen D. Guido Reni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text (New York: 1984) p. 286
