Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on wove paper attached to album page

Dimensions

sheet: 34.7 x 26.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
mount: 41.4 x 30.5 cm (16 5/16 x 12 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.9

Artists / Makers

Felice Albites (artist) Italian, c. 1778 - 1811

Image Use

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Inscription

by artist, lower center in pen and dark brown ink: FA (in monogram); by later hand, lower left in pen and black ink: a Del Magno; by later hand on mount, upper right in pen and red ink: 141.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: l/-/-; by later hand on mount, lower left to lower center in pen and brown ink: Felice Albides Spagnolo fece. / S. Giovanni Battista nel deserto.; by same hand on mount, lower center to lower right in pen and brown ink: Acquistato del Sig r(in superscript). Gaetano Botticelli Pittore.; lower left embossed on red plastic: FI6; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Del Magno Collection

Provenance

Gaetano Botticelli (according to note on mount). Del Magno Collection (according to inscription). Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 102-103, no. 40 (entry by Andaleeb Banta).