Salome Dancing Before King Herod
Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (French, 1859–1938)

Title

Salome Dancing Before King Herod

Artist

Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (French, 1859–1938)

Date

1887

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

41 × 65 in. (104.1 × 165.1 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Gift of Francis T. B. Martin

Object Number

1953.239

On View

On view

Provenance

Purchased at the Plaza Art Auction Rooms, New York, through J. Laurie Wallace, by Charles W. Martin (1863–1944), Omaha, Nebraska, April 10, 1929–November 27, 1940;
His gift to his nephew, Francis T. B. Martin (1904–1995), Omaha, Nebraska, November 27, 1940–September 4, 1953;
His gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1995.

Exhibition History

Salon, Paris, 1887, no. 2059.

Opening Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November–December 1931.

Worth a Thousand Words: 19th-Century Academic Paintings, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, January 20–March 20, 1994.

Redefining Genre: French and American Painting, 1850–1900, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, September 24–December 17, 1995; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, January 5–February 4, 1996; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, February 24–April 21, 1996; Medirian International Center, Washington, DC, May 15–July 1, 1996, no. 69.

Artist as Narrator: Nineteenth Century Art in England and France, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, September 9–December 5, 2005, no. 79.

Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, October 4, 2014–January 4, 2015; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, January 26–June 7, 2015.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

Published References

Gustave Ollendorff, Salon de 1887, cent planches en photogravure par Goupil & Cie (Paris: Ludovic Baschet, 1887), 66 (repro.), 67, 68.

C. H. Stranahan, A History of French painting from its earliest to its latest practice: including an account of the French academy of painting, its salons, schools of instruction and regulations (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888), 438.

Georges d’Esparbès, “Rochegrosse: Le Rêve de l’histoire,” L’Art Français, April 30, 1891, 11.

Nanette B. Rodney, “Salome,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 11, no. 7 (March 1953): 198 (repro.).

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 106, 107, (repro.).

Samuel H. Howell, “The Dilemma of the French History Painter, 1870–1914: Jean-Paul Laurens, Paul-Albert Besnard, Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse 1994” (PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994), 217.

Gabriel P. Weisberg, Redefining Genre: French and American Painting, 1850–1900, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: Trust for Museum Exhibition, 1995), 67, (repro.).

George Hardy, ed., Artist as Narrator: Nineteenth Century Art in England and France, exh. cat. (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2005), 17 (repro.).

Laurent Houssais, Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, les fastes de la decadence, exh. cat. (Paris: Mare & Martin, Moulins: Musée Anne-de-Beaujeu, 2013), 14, fig. 4, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 206–207, (repro.).