Hans von Aachen (German, c. 1552-1615), Salomé, 1605/10. Black chalk and brush and gray wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on cream laid paper, 18.9 × 14.8 cm. Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Guido Reni 1622". Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments, 1991.122 © Art Institute of Chicago

This late drawing reveals the melding of northern and southern Baroque influences that characterized the cosmopolitan court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612). The drawing may relate to a painting of this subject, now lost, that was listed in the Emperor’s inventory.