Salome. Henri Regnault
1870 Öl auf Leinwand, 160 × 101 cm
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Salomé. Henri Regnault
1870, Öl auf Leinwand, 160 × 101 cm
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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See also : Salome, Paintings, Drawings
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The Mentor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 6, Num. 9, Serial No. 157, June 15, 1918 : His (Henri Regnault) love of color is well shown in the “Salome.” The model was an Italian gypsy girl of the Campagna (cam-pan-yuh), and it was not until the picture was well advanced that this title was given to it. It is hardly as a characterization of the light-footed daughter of Herodias that the painting charms, though the naming was apt. Its attraction lies in the marvelous harmony of yellows, and in its daring reversal of the Rembrandt method. Rembrandt surrounded his light with shadow—here there is the shining black of the touseled head in the midst of gleaming silk and radiant spangles.
Everything superfluous has been eliminated. What detail there is,—the chest, the salver, the rug, is all in keeping with the design as a whole. No description can do justice to the handling of the textiles, or suggest the accuracy of their values. The marvel of it is how so many tones of yellow could be heaped one upon the other without wearying the eye.
