The Toilet of Salome

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley British

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Near a Japanese style dressing table, the seated figure of Salome, clothed loosely in an open robe, is tended by a a masked Pierrot who adjusts and powders her hair. A nude page at right holds a tray with a coffee service while another sits on a stool at left. A third, clothed, stands a left and plays a double bass. Illustration to "Salome" translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, by Lord Alfred Douglas, published London and Boston, 1894.

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