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Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

mid-1600s

Jacob Duck

(Dutch, c. 1600–1667)

Netherlands

Oil on wood

Framed: 92 x 76.5 x 4 cm (36 1/4 x 30 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 71 x 54.6 cm (27 15/16 x 21 1/2 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1975.79

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213 Dutch Painting

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The pommel of the executioner's sword is decorated with a grotesque head, suggesting an ancient or exotic setting for this event.

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The colorful, exotic garments worn by the woman at the right demonstrate Jacob Duck’s skill in painting luxurious surfaces: she is Salome, daughter of Herodias. According to the New Testament, Herodias bore a grudge against John the Baptist, who condemned her marriage to Herod, ruler of Galilee and Perea. At a celebration dinner, Salome so charmed Herod with her dancing that he offered her anything she desired—and Herodias convinced Salome to demand John the Baptist’s head. Rather than depicting the actual execution, Duck focused on the executioner’s muscled physique as he departs the scene, turning to look at the viewer after having presented Salome with John’s severed head.

Provenance

(F. Muller, Amsterdam, sale H. I. A Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt et al., November 6 ff., 1900, no. 339 [fl. 280, to Valk])

Victor de Stuers (1858-1916, The Hague and Kasteel Wiersse, Vorden, The Netherlands); by descent to his daughter, Alice Jacqueline Hortense Julie Aurelie de Stuers (1895-1988), wife of W. E. Gatacre

Mrs. W. E. Gatacre, Jonkvrouwe de Stuers, Kasteel Wiersse, Vorden, Holland

(Christie’s, London, sale Mrs. W. E. Gatacre-Jonkvrouwe de Stuers, November 26, 1965, no. 42 [as by Hendrik Gerritsz Pot; 600 Gns., to Sokolow])

(Alan Jacobs Gallery, London)

(Sotheby’s, London, sale December 6, 1972, no. 54 [as by Jacob Duck])

(The Arcade Gallery, London)

Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.

Citations

Manuscript Catalogue (handwritten by Victor de Stuers, 1915). Mentioned: no. 348.

"Alan Jacobs: Fine Paintings." The Art Quarterly XXXIV, no. 3 (Autumn 1971): 361. Reproduced: p. 361

"Notable Works of Art Now on the Market: Supplement." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 843 (June 1973). Mentioned and reproduced: pl XXX

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1975." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (1976): 31-71. Mentioned: cat. no. 58, p. 67, Reproduced: p. 41 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 231; Mentioned: p. 230-232

Rosen, Jochai. Jacob Duck, c.1600-1667: Catalogue Raisonné. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. Reproduced: p.246-247, no. 149

Exhibition history

A Winter Exhibition of Dutch XVIIth Century Masters. Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, 1971.

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