Saint John the Baptist c. 1600-88
Oil on canvas | 159.5 x 101.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406179
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Saint John the Baptist is shown as a boy of about fourteen, full-length, walking and gesturing to the right. He wears a wine-red robe over a pale green undergarment and carries a reed cross in his left hand. This is a feeble copy, probably by an English artist, after a picture in the Royal Collection (RCIN 400120), itself a copy after a part of an original triptych by Correggio painted c. 1520-5 for the high altar of S. Maria della Misericordia, Correggio. The artist has here altered the background to a landscape rather than an architectural scene.
Provenance
First recorded in the Little Antichamber at Whitehall in 1688 as a copy after Correggio (no 164)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
159.5 x 101.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
181.1 x 121.0 x 7.5 cm (frame, external)
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