Painted banquet scene with figures at a white-draped table, a woman in teal carrying a dish, a small inset of a beheading, and a dog on a checkered floor.

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

A banquet interior with a bearded old man in red and a green hat and a seated woman in white at a draped table, while a woman in dark teal carries a dish toward them. A small inset at upper right shows an executioner over a fallen body, and a dog lies on the checkered floor.

Artist: manier van Lucas van Leyden
Date: 1550-1600
Medium
Source: Rijksmuseum
Size: 2177 × 4000 px

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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1600.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

16th century renaissance miniature painting biblical scene checkered floor john the baptist banquet beheading salome northern european art lucas van leyden