Art, literature & history
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
1825/1835
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with watercolor and brown-gray wash over black chalk, with touches of red chalk in Salom's lips and by her mouth, on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 28.8 x 24 cm (11 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2010.93.22
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist. Giuseppe Bernardino Bison; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giuseppe_Bernardino_Bison,_Salome_with_the_Head_of_Saint_John_the_Baptist,_1825-1835,_NGA_131306.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist — Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. 1825/1835.
Medium: pen and brown ink with watercolor and brown-gray wash over black chalk, with touches of red chalk in Salom's lips and by her mouth, on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 28.8 x 24 cm (11 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2010.93.22. Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.