![]() ![]() This act is a group dance, with three central figures participating, two men either side of a woman, the one of the left running a violin bow over the naked buttocks of a child resting on his shoulder. The second etching focuses on a dance performed by saltimbanques for the entertainment of the ruling family, the performers naked and facing Herod and Salome and also the viewer. The first etching depicts Salomé dancing in front of Herod her complete nakedness is exposed to him, her left leg kicking the air, while behind her the decapitated head of John the Baptist rests in the arms of a seated female servant, on a platter. The two Picasso works that are the focus of this paper are Salomé and The Barbaric Dance (Before Salomé and Herod). ![]() His Suite de Saltimbanques was first shown in 1905 as a collection of prints, though Picasso created these works in etching and drypoint. Between the autumn of 1904 and the spring of 1905, Picasso found inspiration for his work in the world of travelling circus performers. Amongst them is Pablo Picasso, who, intriguingly, chose to depict Salome in the midst of itinerant acrobats, musicians and clowns or saltimbanques. Salome the daughter of Herodias who asks for the head of John the Baptist on a platter has played the muse to many artists through the centuries. ![]()
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