Provenance

King Charles I of England (1600-1649), Hampton Court, by 1649; Intended for the Commonwealth sale 1649-51, but reserved for Oliver Cromwell and probably thereafter kept at Hampton Court or Whitehall; Recovered after the Restoration in 1660 for Charles II of England (1630-1685) and certainly at Whitehall by 1666; In the collection of William III, King of England, at Kensington Palace by 1697; In the Queen's Gallery at Windsor Castle by circa 1705-10; In the Great Drawing Room, Kensington Palace by 1732 and within the Royal collection until some time after 1736 (but not recorded in a 1785-90 inventory); Col. W. Pollok-Morris C.M.G., D.S.O. (1867–1936) of Craig, Kilmarnock, Scotland, by 1913 and recorded in an inventory of his belongings at Craig drawn up in July 1928; By descent to Mrs Ellison J. Dickson, Knowlton, Ayr, Scotland, by whom loaned to The National Trust, Culzean Castle, Ayrshire by 1965, and recorded in an inventory of her collection at Knowlton drawn up in October that year; By family descent until sold ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 9 December 1994, lot 348, as Studio of Titian, where bought by Colnaghi; From whom acquired by Luigi Koelliker, London; New York, Sotheby's, 29 January 2009, lot 33; From Koelliker acquired by a collector in England, Purchased by the NMWA, 2012.

Exhibition History

2004

The Age of Titian: Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 5 August 2004 - 5 December 2004, cat. no. 65, col. repr.

2007

Der späte Tizian und die Sinnlichkeit der Malerei, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, 18 October 2007 - 6 January 2008, cat. no. 3.17, repr.

2014

Voices Calling from the Unusual: Hirano Keiichiro's Selection of Western Art Masterpieces, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 8 April 2014 - 15 June 2014, cat. no. 20

2017

Titian and the Renaissance in Venice: 150th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Italy, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21 January 2017 - 2 April 2017, cat. no. 41, col. repr.

2018

Rubens and the Birth of the Baroque, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 16 October 2018 - 20 January 2019, cat. no. 19

2021

National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y1_36 | T2_29

Bibliography

1638

Probably Inventory of Pictures Belonging to Bartolomeo della Nave. no. 15, "A Judith Pal 4 & 3 with a woman with a vaile over her head and a more page with the head of olifernes of Titian it may be Herod's daughter…150".

1660

Possibly Colonel William Hawley's Inventory of 1660-1 of Goods Recoverd for the Crown, as either no. 37: "A herodias wth ye: St John Bapt: Head in a platter being an Italian peace," or more likeky no. 55: "A Harodias with a John Baptist head in A platter and her maide by her".

1666

Inventory of Charles II's Pictures etc., at Whitehall and Hampton Court. circa 1666-7, p. 43, no. 470, in store at Whitehall

1688

Inventory of James II's Pictures etc., at Whitehall, Windsor, Hampton Court and in the Custody of the Queen Dowager, Catherine Braganza, Somerset House. 1688, no. 358, at Whitehall

1697

Inventory of William III's Pictures etc., at Kensington, 1697 and 1700, in the Gallery

1705

Inventory of Queen Anne's Pictures at Kensington, Hampton Court, Windsor, St. James's and Somerset House. circa 1705-10, no. 97, in the Queen's Gallery at Windsor

1732

Inventory of George II, Pictures at Kensington. 1732 and 1736, p. 2, in the Great Drawing Room

1829

Hume, A. Notices of the Life and Works of Titian. London, 1829, pp. 76, 78.

1854

Probably Waagen, G. F. Treasures of Art in Great Britain. vol. II, Appendix, London, 1854, p. 480, no. 13, under 'Catalogue of the Capital Pictures in the Collection of Charles I, King of England'.

1877

Crowe, J. A.; Cavalcaselle, G. B. Titian: His Life and Times. vol. II, London, J. Murray, 1877, p. 141.

1885

Possibly Cosnac, J. Les richesses du Palais Mazarin. Paris, 1885, p. 416, no. 78, "Hérodes avec la teste de saint Jean, par Tissian".

1952

Waterhouse, E. K. Paintings from Venice for Seventeenth Century England: Some Records of a Forgotten Transaction. Italian Studies. vol. 7, 1952, p. 15.

1972

Millar, Oliver. The Inventories and Valuations of the King's Goods, 1649-1651. The Walpole Society. vol. 43, 1970-1972, p. 190, no. 78.

2004

Cornwell, T. Double Delight Unveiled at National Gallery as New Age of Titian Dawns. The Scotsman. 4 August 2004, p. 13.

2004

AA. VV. Not for an Age, but for All Time. Edinburgh Evening News. 3 August 2004.

2004

Miller, P. Scots Expert Unveils Titian's Lost Salome to the World: First Showing for Multi-million Pound Find. The Herald. 4 August 2004, p. 4.

2006

Tagliaferro, Giorgio. La bottega di Tiziano: Un percorso critico. Studi Tizianeschi. vol. 4, 2006, pp. 45, 47, fig. 23.

2007

Humfrey, Peter. Titian: The Complete Paintings. [Ghent], Ludion/ New York, 2007, p. 329, no. 256, col. repr.

2013

Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 17, col. repr.

2013

Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 46 (Apr. 2011-Mar. 2012), 2013, Watanabe, Shinsuke. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-17, List of New Acquisitions. p. 48, repr.

2016

Titian and the renaissance in Venice: 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Italy (exh. cat.). Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico; Kobayashi Akiko, eds. [Tokyo], NHK, 2016, pp. 124-125, 215, cat. no. 41, col. repr.

2018

Rubens and the Birth of the Baroque (exh. cat.). Lo Bianco, Anna; Watanabe Shinsuke, eds. Tokyo, TBS Television, 2018, pp. 74-75, 290, cat. no. 19, col. repr.

2021

When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 45, 176, cat. no. Y1_36 | T2_29, col. repr.

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