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Gustave Moreau

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

ca. 1876
Oil on wood
21.6 × 12.1 cm (8.5 × 4.8 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 556

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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