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Albrecht Altdorfer

Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist

c. 1517
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and white gouache; framing lines in pen and black ink

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The artist colored the paper on this drawing a dark brown in order to emphasize the highlights and shadows created with inks.

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