Salome

 

Wilhelm August Volz

  1855 - 1901 (biography)

1896  

color lithograph 

10 3/4 x 7 3/8" image 

pencil, lower right; monogram in stone, lower right image 

not stated (numbered "12" in an unknown hand in lower right corner of margin) 

 

 

cream Japon mince 

proof, aside from published edition 

Pan 

20783 

$500.00 

This is a pencil signed impression, apart from the edition that was published in "Pan" in 1896. The seductress Salome, daughter of Herodias recoils as she holds the head of Saint John the Baptist on a platter. Salome had requested the head as a favor after having danced for Herod and her mother. Herod commanded it be done. She then gave the head to her mother.