depicts: John the Baptist

instance of: painting (473) | triptych (16) | sculpture (16) | reredos (10) | statue (6) | tondo (6) | drawing (4) | panel painting (3) | polyptych (3) | print (3) | fresco (3) | icon (2) | diptych (2) | winged altarpiece (2) | altarpiece (2) | sculpture capital (2) | polychrome sculpture (2) | fountain (1)

commissioned by: Joan II, Countess of Auvergne (1) | John, Duke of Berry (1) | Parliament of Paris (1) | Jean de Sedano (1) | Thomas Butts (1)

owned by: Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (10) | Robert Lehman (6) | Michael Friedsam (5) | Birmingham Museum of Art (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (3) | Richard von Kaufmann (2) | John G. Johnson (2) | France (1) | Uffizi (1) | Christina of Sweden (1) | Lindau (1) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (1) | Karoline Luise von Baden (1) | Cleveland Museum of Art (1) | Dallas Museum of Art (1) | Lindau Abbey (1) | Museum Catharijneconvent (1) | Jacques Goudstikker collection (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (18) | High Renaissance (13) | Baroque (10) | Italian Renaissance (9) | Early Renaissance (6) | Renaissance (4) | Venetian school (4) | mannerism (3) | Gothic sculpture (3) | Renaissance art (3) | Gothic art (2) | International Gothic (2) | Impressionism (1) | Romanesque art (1) | rococo (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | Quattrocento (1) | Spanish Renaissance (1)

genre: religious art (443) | portrait (12) | nude (10) | landscape art (8) | religious painting (5) | full-length portrait (5) | miniature (4) | religious sculpture (4) | three-quarter portait (3) | mannerism (1) | religious text (1) | public art (1) | Christian art (1) | sculpture (1) | genre art (1) | donor portrait (1) | mythological painting (1) | interior view (1)

based on: Madonna and Child (8) | New Testament (2) | Old Testament (1) | Greek mythology (1) | Revelation of John (1) | Baptism of Jesus (1) | Bride of Christ (1) | crucifixion (1) | The Holy Infants Embracing (1) | Salomé with the Head of John the Baptist (1) | Holy Family with St Catharine and Young John the Baptist (1) | Holy Family in a Landscape with John the Baptist (1)

artist: anonymous (46) | Andrea del Sarto (8) | Cima da Conegliano (8) | Caravaggio (8) | Hans Memling (8) | Raphael (7) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (7) | El Greco (6) | Sandro Botticelli (6) | Pietro Perugino (5) | Annibale Carracci (5) | Palma Vecchio (5) | Titian (5) | Giovanni di Paolo (5) | Leonardo da Vinci (4) | Peter Paul Rubens (4) | Fra Angelico (4) | Fra Bartolomeo (4)

material used: oil paint (296) | canvas (129) | wood (82) | tempera (69) | panel (68) | poplar wood (18) | canvas (10) | copper (9) | oak (9) | gold (8) | paper (7) | gold leaf (6) | limestone (3) | bronze (3) | fresco (3) | color (2) | stone (2) | marble (2)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (56) | National Museum in Warsaw (32) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (31) | Museo del Prado (29) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (21) | National Gallery (15) | National Gallery of Art (12) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (12) | Rijksmuseum (11) | Statens Museum for Kunst (11) | Art Institute of Chicago (10) | Uffizi Gallery (10) | private collection (8) | Musée des Augustins (8) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (7) | Museo Soumaya (7) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (6) | Hermitage Museum (6)

location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (31) | Museo del Prado (28) | Alte Pinakothek (17) | Room 710 (15) | National Gallery (14) | National Museum in Warsaw (12) | museum's storage space (12) | Rijksmuseum (11) | National Gallery of Art (11) | Statens Museum for Kunst (11) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (11) | Art Institute of Chicago (10) | Room 709 (7) | Uffizi (6) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (6) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (6) | Nationalmuseum (6) | Hermitage Museum (5)

part of: Virgin of the rocks (1) | polyptych (1) | The Werl Triptych (1) | Pisa Polyptych (1) | Donne Triptych (1) | Santa Maria Maggiore Altarpiece (1) | Pala Tornabuoni Polyptych (1) | Triptych of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1) | Madonna and Child, Saints Francis, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist and Anthony of Padua (1) | Allegory of salvation (1) | Gonfalon. The Right Side: Madonna and Child, with a Bishop, St John The Baptist and Angels. Top Part - Christ Blessing. The Reverse Side: The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John. Top Part - The Annunciation (1) | Diptych of Jan du Cellier (1) | St John the Baptist and Veronica Diptych (1) | Welsh Portrait Collection (1) | Isenheim Altarpiece, closed‎ (1) | Collection Van Herck (1)

country of origin: Italy (20) | United States of America (2) | Spain (1) | Germany (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (10) | Europeana 280 (3) | Velázquez (3) | Exposition des primitifs français (2) | Ulmer Museum (1) | Renaissance (1) | Botticelli Reimagined (1) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (1) | El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez (1) | The Michael Friedsam Collection (1) | Florentine Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum (1) | Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art (1) | Francis I and the art of the Netherlands (1) | Prayers and Portraits, Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (1) | Le Baroque des Lumières (1) | The van Herck Collection: Terracotta’s from the 17th and 18th Centuries (1) | Tentoonstelling van tekenignen: G. Kerricx en G.I. Kerrix, Ontwerpen ... Maketten en Beeldhouwwerken. (1) | De Madonna in de Kunst (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (66) | John the Baptist in the wilderness (32) | Sacra Conversazione (21) | Holy Family (19) | Baptism of Jesus (9) | crucifixion of Jesus (4) | Nativity of Jesus (2) | Annunciation (2) | Visitation (2) | Coronation of the Virgin (2) | birth of John the Baptist (2) | Christianity (1) | Jerome (1) | Man of Sorrows (1) | Francis I of France (1) | Assumption of Mary (1) | Lamb of God (1) | Adoration of the Magi (1)

donated by: Michael Friedsam (1)

location of final assembly: Italy (3) | Florence (3) | Spain (1) | London (1) | Germany (1) | Venice (1) | Seville (1) | Constantinople (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Florentine School/ (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (7) | fresco painting (2) | oil painting (2) | polychromy (2) | intaglio printing (2) | relief sculpture (2) | grisaille (2) | embroidery (1) | lithography (1) | Reverse glass painting (1) | wash (1) | quilting (1) | haut-relief technique (1) | bas-relief (1) | appliqué (1) | piecing (1)

time period: Renaissance (1) | 17th century (1)