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The Daughter of Herodias

Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485–1547)

The National Gallery, London

The Daughter of Herodias

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A young woman is moving towards an open window or door through which a hilly landscape can be seen. She turns to look back at us over her shoulder, her arm parallel with a stone parapet on which the date 1510 is written. On a metal salver she carries the greyish-green severed head of a man. The woman’s expression is hard to read – her lips are pressed closed but her eyes glint with moisture and emotion. Her identity is not entirely clear – she could be Salome with the head of John the Baptist or Judith with the head of Holofernes.

We do not know who commissioned this painting, which the young Sebastiano painted shortly before he moved permanently to Rome. The atmospheric rendering of the landscape view reveals the influence of his older colleagues Giovanni Bellini and especially Giorgione, with whom Sebastiano appears to have been close.

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Title

The Daughter of Herodias

Date

1510

Medium

Oil on wood

Measurements

H 54.9 x W 44.5 cm

Accession number

NG2493

Acquisition method

Salting Bequest, 1910

Work type

Painting

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Sebastiano del Piombo

c.1485–1547

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