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By Guercino, Louvre; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. 6 in. Salome, accompanied by a servant, receives in a basin the head of John the Baptist, which an executioner holds by the hair. Painted about 1650. Formerly in Modena Gallery. Villot, Louvre; Landon, Musée, xiv. Pl. 31.

Salome, Guercino, Louvre.

By Bernardino Luini, Louvre; wood, H. 2 ft. × 1 ft. 9 in. The daughter of Herodias, half-length, receives into a charger the head of John the Baptist, which is held by a person whose arm only is seen at right. Collection of Louis XIV. Attributed to Solario and to Leonardo da Vinci. Excellent in colour.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Landon.

By Bernardino Luini, Uffizi, Florence; wood. The daughter of Herodias, accompanied by a servant, receives from the hand of an executioner the head of John the Baptist in a charger. Formerly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.—Soc. Ed. & Paris, Gal. de Firenze, Pl. 39.

By Giovanni Antonio Pordenone, Palazzo Doria, Rome; canvas, half-length, life-size. The daughter of Herodias, with her maid, and head of John on a charger. A lofty Venetian beauty; head of Baptist also of Venetian type. Commonly attributed to Giorgione. Replica in Baring Collection, London; and a modern copy in Palazzo Berri (Vendramin), Venice.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 287; Burckhardt, 732.

By Henri Regnault, Madame de Cassin, Paris. Full-length, seated on a decorated coffer, her limbs only half concealed by a gauze robe ornamented with gold, her naked feet escaping from her slippers, her superb head of raven-black hair relieved against a lemon-coloured satin curtain. In her lap is a golden charger and a sheathed knife. An elaborate study of a gypsy of the Campagna. Painted in Rome (1869) and Tangiers. Salon, 1870; sold to a dealer for 15,000 francs; to Madame de Cassin for 40,000 francs. Etched by Rajon.—Stothert, 225; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 489; Larousse, xiv. 131; Appleton's Journal, viii. 512.

By Titian (?), Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft. 10 in. × 2 ft. 8 in. Same figure as the Lavinia Vecelli of Berlin, but carrying on her head in a silver salver the head of John the Baptist; dress, red damask. Painted about 1555 (?). If this is not the Salome of Collection of Charles I., that picture is missing. Copy by Padovanino in Padua Gallery.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 141; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 480.

By Alessandro Turchi, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. 5 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. King Herod, seated at table with Herodias and other persons, grants to Salome the head of the Baptist, for which she asks.—Cat. Madrid Mus.

SALTER, WILLIAM, born at Honiton, Devonshire, in 1804, died in London, Dec. 22, 1875. History and portrait painter, pupil in London of Northcote in 1822-27. In the latter year he went to Florence, where the exhibition of his Socrates before the Areopagus won him an election to the Academy and a professorship in the first class of