Head of Saint John the Baptist

1516

Hans Baldung Grien

Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on two joined sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 33.6 x 29.8 cm (13 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.12.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sold, Sotheby's, London, 21 March 1973, no. 31). (P.& D. Colnaghi, London); acquired 1980 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1981

  • Hans Baldung Grien: Prints & Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1981, no. 56, repro.

1986

  • Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1986, no. 181.

Inscriptions

upper right in monogram: HGB / 1516

Wikidata ID

Q64572918

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