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 SALTER By Guercino, Louvre ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. X 5 ft. 6 in. Salome, accompanied by a servant, receives in a basin the bead of John the Baptist, which an executioner holds by the hair. Painted about 1650. Formerly in Modena Gallery. Villot, Louvre ; Landon, Musoe, xiv. PI. 31. By Bernardino Luini, Louvre ; wood, H. 2 ft. x 1 ft. 9 in. The daughter of Herodias, half-length, receives into a charger the head of John the Baptist, which is held by a per- son whose arm only is seen at right. Col- lection of Louis XIV. Attributed to Sola- Salome. Guercino, Louvre. rio and to Leonardo da Vinci. Excellent in colour. Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Landon. By Bernardino Luini, Uffizi, Florence ; wood. The daughter of Herodias, accom- panied by a servant, receives from the hand of an executioner the head of John the Bap- tist in a charger. Formerly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Soc. Ed. & Paris, Gal. de Firenze, PL 39. By Giovanni Antonio Pordenone, Palazzo Doria, Kome ; canvas, half-length, life-size. The daughter of Herodias, with her maid, and head of John on a charger. A lofty Venetian beauty ; head of Baptist also of Venetian type. Commonly attributed to Giorgione. Keplica in Baring Collection, London ; and a modern copy in Palazzo Berri (Vendramin), Venice. C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 287 ; Burckhardt, 732. By Henri Regnault, Madame de Cassin, Paris. Full-length, seated on a decorated coffer, her limbs only half concealed by a gauze robe ornamented with gold, her naked feet escaping from her slippers, her superb head of raven-black hair relieved against a lemon-coloured satin curtain. In her lap is a golden charger and a sheathed knife. An elaborate study of a gypsy of the Campagna. Painted in Rome (1869) and Tangiers. Salon, 1870 ; sold to a dealer for 15,000 francs ; to Mad- ame de Cassin for 40,000 francs. Etched by Eajon. Stothert, 225 ; Kunst- Chronik, viii. 489 ; La- rousse, xiv. 131 ; Appleton's Journal, viii. 512. By Titian (?), Madrid Museum ; canvas, H. 2 ft. 10 in. x 2 ft. 8 in. Same figure as the Lavinia Ve- celli of Berlin, but carrying on her head in a silver sal- ver the head of John the Baptist ; dress, red da- mask. Painted about 1555 (?). If this is not the Sa- lome of Collection of Charles I., that picture is missing. Copy by Padovauino in Padua Gallery. C. & C., Titian, ii. 141 ; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 480. By Alessandro Turchi, Madrid Museum ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 5 in. x 5 f t. 3 in. King Herod, seated at table with Herodias and other persons, grants to Salome the head of the Baptist, for which she asks. Cat. Ma- drid Mus. SALTEE, WILLIAM, born at Honiton, Devonshire, in 1804, died in London, Dec. 22, 1875. History and portrait painter, pu- pil in London of Northcote in 1822-27, In the latter year he went to Florence, where the exhibition of his Socrates before the Areopagus won him an election to the Acad- emy and a professorship in the first class of 106