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St John the Baptist in the Wilderness
c. 1495 · Tabla [roble] / Óleo (oak panel, oil) · Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Fundación Lázaro Galdiano), Madrid
For the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist · 24 June
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Saint John the Baptist lies on the ground, barefoot, head on his hand, one finger pointing down at a small white lamb. He has not yet given that sign at the Jordan; for now he thinks, in a wilderness of invented plants and rock. The Lázaro Galdiano reports that radiographs and infrared studies made in 1995 found a donor under the unsettling plant beside him, a praying figure the museum takes to be the patron. Barba reads it as a chimera of more than six species. Bosch lets a bird peck at the seeds spilling from its fruit. The Lamb lies still, waiting to be named.
Sources: Museo Lázaro Galdiano, 'Meditaciones de San Juan Bautista', inv. 08155, read 2026-09-24 · Museo Lázaro Galdiano blog, 'La tabla Meditaciones de San Juan Bautista de El Bosco (2)', 30 June 2015; read 2026-09-24 · Howard Oakley, 'Hieronymus Bosch: Saint John the Baptist (Madrid)', The Eclectic Light Company, 15 June 2016, citing Ilsink et al. 2016 CR no. 5; read 2026-09-24
The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.
John 1:29 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)