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Salome Presenting the Head of John the Baptist to Herod and Herodias (from the series The Large Power of Women, block 5 of 6)
Designed by: Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
Blockcutter: Unidentified artist, Netherlandish, 16th century
Blockcutter: Unidentified artist, Netherlandish, 16th century
about 1512
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Image: 41.5 x 29.2 cm (16 5/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 41.5 x 29.2 cm (16 5/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 41.5 x 29.2 cm (16 5/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased from Duplicate Print Fund
Accession Number32.538
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (relief) 012; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. X) 21 (I/II); Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 179 (Ia)
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Recto, lower right in brown ink: F; verso, in faded brown ink, old Dutch hand (indecipherable); MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 31632
Provenance1932, purchased by the MFA.