Saint John the Baptist

1550s

Battista Franco

Artist, Venetian, probably 1498 - 1561

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on laid paper, laid down on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.4 × 28.7 cm (7 1/4 × 11 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.1 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)
    mount: 25.2 × 31.9 cm (9 15/16 × 12 9/16 in.) (all unevenly cut)

  • Accession

    2016.18.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802-1821, no. 34, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA): purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no. 34, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: 19, Franco forma. Battista franco fecit; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 17

Wikidata ID

Q77015527

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