Enrico Arcioni, 1875 Spoleto - 1954 Rome, Studies at the Academies Rom and Perugio, lived in Paris from 1892 and of 1900-1915 in St. Petersburg, mainly painted portraits of the French and Russian nobility and some religious subjects, here: Salome with dem Headof John the Baptist, atmospheric Art Nouveau painting with skillful use of light from different sources: from behind and firelight from front, attributive function of the head of John in favor of the ecstatic-eroticizing depiction of Salome, greatly reduced, signed lower right and inscribed, oil/canvas, restored, relined, approx. 87x67cm, frame approx. 95x74cm