Franz von Lenbach
Salome (Copy of a painting by Titian (1485/90–1576), c. 1512–15, in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome), 1864
Öl auf Leinwand, 86,2 x 68,7 cm
1864 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Inv. Nr. 11437
Salome (Copy of a painting by Titian (1485/90–1576), c. 1512–15, in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome)
The drama surrounding the murder of St John the Baptist is condensed into a contemplative image featuring the half-length figure of Salome holding the charger with St John’s head. Jacob Burckhardt described this Salome in 1855 as a ‘noble Venetian beauty, withal clever and cold’. Lenbach, who copied the picture in Rome at a time when it was thought to be by Pordenone, praised it as ‘[one of] the most beautiful paintings in the world’.