Herod and John the Baptist's Head, Mantua piece | The Lost Collection

Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist

Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Romanino

Herod and John the Baptist's Head, Mantua piece

Walpole Society reference (1972):

WS 301, №47

Location:

Pictures now remaining in Somerset House in the custody of Mr Henry Browne September 1649 that came from Whitehall and St James's

Appraisal:

25-0-0

Sold to:

De Critz

Sale date:

23/10/1651

Appears in Charles II c1666:

Whitehall, no 47, 96.5 x 91

Identification certainty:

Identified

Notes:

Mantua piece

Herodias with St John's Head on a platter, looking towards her right shoulder to another old woman near (half-length, her mother), with one hand to her breast