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Salome  1900

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

Label (Luce Center): [br]Salome stands out from Henry Ossawa Tanner's other religious images, which are more conservative than this provocative painting. Salome's demand for the head of John the Baptist is one of the most lurid stories in the Bible. She dances for her stepfather, who rewards her beauty by giving her the prophet’s head on a platter. Here, Tanner presented S...
Size: 
45 7/8 x 35 1/4 in. (116.5 x 89.4 cm.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
More: 
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=23677

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