SANO DI PIETRO
THE BEHEADING OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
Fragment from an altarpiece. Salome's Dance, now held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, belongs to the same predella (lower part of an altarpiece).
Provenance: during the first decade of the 20th century it was acquired in Italy by M.S.Shchokin, who donated it to the Pushkin Museum in 1909.