Saint John the Baptist, 1550s

Not on View

Medium

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

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)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2016.18.1

Artists / Makers

Battista Franco (artist) Venetian, probably 1498 - 1561

Image Use

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

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

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

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

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