Saint John Preaching in the Wilderness

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1918.30
People: Follower of Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, Italian (Verona, Italy 1528 - 1588 Venice, Italy)
Title: Saint John Preaching in the Wilderness
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 16th century
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/299222

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash over black chalk with white and blue gouache and pastel on blue antique laid paper, laid down overall to thin wove paper

Dimensions

53.7 × 39.5 cm (21 1/8 × 15 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: seven-petaled flower (Mongan-Sachs W. 15)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: William A. White, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1918

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White
Accession Year: 1918
Object Number: 1918.30
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 210, p. 112
W.R. Rearick, Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, Electa (Milan, Italy, 2001), p. 234 (n.314) as Benedetto Caliari

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