Saint John the Baptist in the Desert
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
One finger, raised. The Baptist's office is to point at a person — Behold the Lamb of God — and here it finds an object. The Louvre catalogues the picture under that gesture: Saint John the Baptist in the desert designating the Cross of the Passion. The gesture skips the life and names the death.
Raphael conceived it; the execution is credited to Giulio Romano or Raffaellino del Colle.
Cardinal Adrien Gouffier's nephew Claude hung it at Oiron and had arms added in the top corners: two names above a man whose whole business is pointing away from himself.
Sources: Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures, INV 606; « Hauteur : 1,35 m ; Hauteur avec accessoire : 1,81 m ; Largeur : 1,42 m ; Largeur avec accessoire : 1,86 m ». · Base Joconde, notice 000PE026973, Musée du Louvre, département des Peintures. · Institut national d'histoire de l'art, AGORHA, notice on Louvre INV 606. · John 1:29, Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Centre des monuments nationaux, Château d'Oiron, « Histoire du château d'Oiron »
And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 13,998 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.