id: 126219 accession number: 1948.440 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.440 updated: 2025-02-09 01:22:45.303000 Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, c. 1517. Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480–1538). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and white gouache; framing lines in pen and black ink; sheet: 19.1 x 12.6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.); secondary support: 20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1948.440 title: Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1517 creation date earliest: 1512 creation date latest: 1522 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and white gouache; framing lines in pen and black ink department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480–1538) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19.1 x 12.6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper prepared with dark brown ground, laid down on cream(3) laid paper; window mount of cream(3) laid paper mounted to recto watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower right, in brown ink: 17; on paper mounted to recto, lower right, in brown ink: 40; verso of secondary support, center, in graphite: Liechtenstein translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings opening date: 1949-01-11T05:00:00 Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-March 27, 1949). title: German Drawings opening date: 1955-11-11T05:00:00 German Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11-December 18, 1955). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Prints and Drawings of the Danube School opening date: 1969-10-09T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings of the Danube School. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (organizer) (October 9-November 16, 1969); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (December 11, 1969-January 25, 1970); Saint Louis Art Museum (February 10-March 24, 1970). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Albrecht Dürer and His Influence opening date: 1991-01-16T05:00:00 Albrecht Dürer and His Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-March 10, 1991). title: The German Tradition opening date: 1993-04-27T04:00:00 The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (no stamp; according to inscription on secondary support). date: ?-1948 footnotes: citations: with F. A. Drey, London. date: 1948 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. date: 1948- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry S. Francis. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/June, 1950. No. 6/pt 1. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978: 115-118. page number: p. 117-118. url: Francis, Henry. "A Painting and Drawing by Albrecht Altdorfer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 6 (June 1950): 115-118. page number: Mentioned: p. 117; Reproduced: p. 123 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141638 Winzinger, Franz, and Albrecht Altdorfer. Albrecht Altdorfer Zeichnungen. München: R. Piper & Co, 1952. page number: no. 64, pp. 82-83. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 581 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n109 Oettinger, Karl. Altdorfer-Studien. [On Albrecht and Erhard Altdorfer. With Reproductions]. Nurnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1959. page number: p. 111 url: Oettinger, Karl, "Ein Altdorfer-Schuler: Der Zeichner der Pariser Landsknechte," in Möhle, Hans. Festschrift Friedrich Winkler. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1959: pp. 201-212. page number: pp. 210-212 url: Moskowitz, Ira, and Victoria Thorson. Great Drawings of All Time. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1962. page number: no. 423 url: Stange, Alfred. Malerei der Donauschule. München: Bruckmann, 1964. page number: p. 91 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 112 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n136 Pfeiffer, Wolfgang, "Die Zeichnungen Michael Osterndorfers am Kirchenmodell der Schonen Maria zu Regensburg," Pantheon. XXIV (1966): pp. 378-387. page number: p. 384, url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 112 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n136 Talbot, Charles W., and Alan Shestack. Prints and Drawings of the Danube School; An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560. New Haven: Printed by the Carl Purington Rollins Printing-Office of the Yale University Press, 1969. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 37, pp. 44-45 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n151 Meder, Joseph, and Winslow Ames. The Mastery of Drawing. 2 vols. New York, N.Y.: Abaris Books, 1978. page number: I, pp. 128, 435, II, p. 74 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Miller, Michael. Drawing, a Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1987. page number: p. 9 url: Merkel, Kerstin. Salome: Ikonographie im Wandel. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1990. page number: pp. 194, 307, 451 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1991. page number: p. 72. url: Weingrod, Carmi, "Using Pen and Ink: Learning from Old Master Drawings, Part II, Ink Washes, Chiaroscuro, and Heightening with White," American Artist 57 (Feb. 1993): pp. 10-15. page number: p. 13 url: Grieder, Terence. Artist and Audience. Madison, WI : Brown & Benchmark, 1996. page number: p. 91 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 61, p. 7, pp. 152-153; p. 292 url: Goldner, George R. Review of "Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art," exh cat. by Diane De Grazia and Carter E. Foster, Master Drawings 40/2 (Summer 2002): 174-176. page number: p. 176. url: Dunbar, Burton L., et al. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. London, England: Harvey Miller, 2012. page number: no. 78, pp. 126-128. url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: pl 134. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.440/1948.440_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.440/1948.440_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.440/1948.440_full.tif