 The couple shared a love of art, and patronised several artists, collecting primarily nineteenth-century Viennese paintings and modern sculpture.Ferdinand also had a passion for neoclassical porcelain, and by 1934 his collection was over 400 pieces and one of the finest in the world.In 1901 Klimt painted "Judith and the Head of Holofernes"; the art historian Gottfried Fliedl observes that the painting is "widely known and interpreted as Salome".