Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

between 1512 and 1514

Cesare da Sesto Italian, 1477-1523

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Title Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

Artwork Date between 1512 and 1514

Artist Cesare da Sesto

Life Dates 1477-1523

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown ink with traces of red chalk on fine laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 5 15/16 × 7 5/8 inches (15.1 × 19.4 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 36.32

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper center left, verso: Cesare da Sesto Inscribed, in black chalk, lower left: [Sesto?]

Marks Stamp, in black, verso, lower right corner: [unidentified collector, similar to Lugt 2598 or Lugt 2599]

Provenance

unidentified collector. Dr. Karl Lilienfeld (Berlin, Germany)

1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Curlee, Kendall.The Sforza Court, Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535. Exh cat., Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, 1988 no. 26.

The Earlier Italian Schools. Cat., National Gallery, 2nd rev. ed. London, 1961, p. 141.

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 60-61, no. 17, p. 24 (pl. viii).

Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, no. 32.

Scheyer, Ernst. "Drawings by Cesare da Sesto." Bulletin of the DIA 16, 8 (May 1937): pp. 127-130.

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 151, cat. 126 (ill.).

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Cesare da Sesto, Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, between 1512 and 1514, pen and brown ink with traces of red chalk on fine laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 36.32.