Salomé
Hans von Aachen
1600–1610
- Medium
- Black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 18.9 × 14.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkpaintchalkgray washwhite gouachegouachewashplant materialprints and drawinginorganic materialwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paintcharcoal
About
This late drawing reveals the melding of northern and southern Baroque influences that characterized the cosmopolitan court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612). The drawing may relate to a painting of this subject, now lost, that was listed in the Emperor's inventory.
