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Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness

Maker

(artist)
1503-1540

(woodcutter)
ca. 1510-ca. 1550 (Life dates)

Title

Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness

Date of Production

1520 - 1550

Medium

ink (black and green, now faded) on paper

Dimensions

Height: 11 cm
Width: 11.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.34

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Colnaghi, London; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (n.d.); Princes Gate bequest, 1978

Exhibition History

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/1987-12/07/1987

Literature

The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2022
p. 146n1 under no. 30
watermark is fig. 98 on p. 177

Parmigianino - Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Courtauld, London, 1987
cat. no. 31

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: recto, lower centre, a goblet enclosed in a circle (rotated left 90 degrees) (not in Briquet)

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