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Saint John the Baptist in the Desert, 1629. Engraving in black on cream laid paper.
Engraving in black on cream laid paper · Image: 37.2 × 27.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Saint John the Baptist in the Desert
- Artist
- Claude Mellan French, 1598-1688
- Date
- 1629
- Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 37.2 × 27.7 cm (14 11/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Plate: 39.4 × 27.8 cm (15 9/16 × 11 in.); Sheet: 41.6 × 30 cm (16 7/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Thomas Baron Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1598–1688
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.