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Salome Presenting the Head of John the Baptist to Herod and Herodias (from the series The Small Power of Women, block 6 of 6)

(Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
1516–19
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut
DimensionsBlock: 24.4 x 17.5 cm (9 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 24.6 x 17.9 cm (9 11/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number66.1082
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceFriedrich August II, King of Saxony (b. 1797 - d. 1854), Dresden. William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1966, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 30, 1966)