Herodias Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens · n.d. · Black chalk, with brush and black ink, and gray and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper
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About this picture
Herodias Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist is a public-domain drawing by Peter Paul Rubens, dated n.d.. Black chalk, with brush and black ink, and gray and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Herodias Receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist” (n.d.) comes out of Rubens’s Antwerp studio. The sketches are often his own hand. The large canvases were finished with assistants.
About the artist
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) ran a large Antwerp studio and painted altarpieces, hunts, portraits, and designs for tapestry. The sketches are often his own hand; the big canvases were finished with assistants.
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