The Toilette of Salomé 1

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The toilette of Salomé 1.

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Artist

Name:
Beardsley, Aubrey
Dates:
1872-1898
Country:
UK

Illustration

Subject:
Narratives
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
University of California Libraries, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Salomé
Author:
Wilde, Oscar
Publisher:
London, New York: John Lane, John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, 1907
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Description:

First appearing in the 1907 edition, this version is chronologically the second of Beardsley’s drawings of the toilette of Salomé, coming after the first one was turned down by the publisher and dropped from the first edition. It shows Salomé in an exceedingly flared dress sitting at a dressing table in the Anglo-Japanese style as a bald coiffeur wearing a Pierrot costume and an eye mask attends to her unwieldy hairdo. Among the books to be found on the lower shelf of the table, one can see Nana by Émile Zola, works by the marquis de Sade, Manon Lescaut by abbé Prévost, and Apuleius’s Golden Ass, all titles certain to raise a few eyebrows at the time the play was first published.

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