id: 126219
accession number: 1948.440
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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
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creation date: c. 1517
creation date earliest: 1512
creation date latest: 1522
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Germany, 16th century
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
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CREATORS
* Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480–1538) - artist
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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.)
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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
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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
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (no stamp; according to inscription on secondary support).
date: ?-1948
footnotes:
citations:
with F. A. Drey, London.
date: 1948
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
date: 1948-
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
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Winzinger, Franz, and Albrecht Altdorfer. Albrecht Altdorfer Zeichnungen. München: R. Piper & Co, 1952.
page number: no. 64, pp. 82-83.
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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