print
- Museum number
- 1855,0609.360
- Title
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Object: St Jean prêchant dans le désert
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Series: Galerie du Palais Royal
- Description
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St John preaching in the wilderness, an oval composition after Albani, with the Baptist sitting in the left foreground and addressing a crowd gathered around a tree at centre; with engraved text below. c.1786/1808
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1786-1808 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 422 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'Galerie du Palais Royal', a set published between 1786 and 1808; see 1837,0408.317 for comment.
A plate engraved after a painting which was sold at Christie's London, 10 July 1992, lot 62. See Catherine Puglisi, 'Francesco Albani', Yale University 1999, cat. 106.V.b.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.360