The Daughter of Herodias (Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, Matthew 14:10-11)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 13 1/4 × 10 5/8 in. (33.7 × 27 cm) Sheet: 13 9/16 × 10 7/8 in. (34.5 × 27.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.471
Tags
About the Artist
Henry Fuseli|Thomas Holloway|Thomas Holloway
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zürich, was a Swiss-British painter whose visionary works exploring dreams, nightmares, and psychological terror made him one of the most original figures of the Romantic movement. His art bridged Neoclassical discipline with Romantic emotionalism, creating images of supernatural intensity that would influence artists from William Blake to t...