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Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist by Caravaggio, about 1609-10, The National Gallery, London
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Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610)

about 1609-10 · Oil on canvas · The National Gallery, London

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image 21.2×18 in on a 24×18 in sheet

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About this painting

A head comes down onto a dish by its hair, and Salome, holding the dish, looks away. Saint John the Baptist's eyes are closed; the executioner keeps the sword in his other hand. The National Gallery calls her expression enigmatic: disgust or shame, appalled at what she has brought about. The elderly maidservant clasps her hands in grief. The Gallery reads Salome and the executioner as linked by echoing heads and one raking light, yet he only held the sword; the guilt is hers. Caravaggio painted it, the Gallery says, in his final months. The Baptist's face is turned to the light.

Sources: The National Gallery, London, 'Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist', Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, NG6389; read 2026-09-06.

And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother.

Mark 6:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)

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The Record
Date about 1609-10
Collection The National Gallery, London
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 6,237 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution The National Gallery, London · NG6389

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1571 - 1610
Date about 1609-10
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 91.5 × 106.7 cm
Holding The National Gallery, London · NG6389

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Salome with the Head of John the Baptist-Caravaggio (1610).jpg
Master 6,237 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610)
Dateabout 1609-10
MuseumThe National Gallery, London
AccessionNG6389
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions91.5 × 106.7 cm
Sheet sizes18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in
Provenance of the file
Held byThe National Gallery, London · NG6389 the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Salome with the Head of John the Baptist-Caravaggio (1610).jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master6,237 × 5,304 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons; held as our print master.

The sheets

18×24 in sheet 24×18 in · image 21.2×18 in · archival margin · 295 dpi
24×36 in sheet 36×24 in · image 28.2×24 in · archival margin · 221 dpi
32×48 in sheet 48×32 in · image 37.6×32 in · archival margin · 166 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,237 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.