The Toilet of Salome

1894

Not on view

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.

Artwork Details

Title: The Toilet of Salome
Artist: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, Brighton, Sussex 1872–1898 Menton)
Date: 1894
Medium: Process print from line block
Dimensions: Image: 7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in. (23 × 18 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950
Object Number: 50.576.97
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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