Saint John the Baptist in the desert, seated on a rock and pointing upward with his left hand, a lamb at his right, after Reni
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 23 in. × 15 5/8 in. (58.4 × 39.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.337
Tags
LambsDesertsSaint John the BaptistInsignia
About the Artist
Guido Reni|Pedro Pascual Moles · 1575–1642
Guido Reni (1575–1642) was one of the most celebrated Italian painters of the Baroque era and the dominant figure of the Bolognese School. Born into a family of musicians in Bologna, he trained first with Denys Calvaert before joining the influential Accademia degli Incamminati led by Ludovico Carracci. Reni achieved international fame through his idealizing style that combined Baroque dynamism wi...