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Study for St John the Baptist

Andrea del SARTO
Study for St John the Baptist
 (c. 1517)

Medium
red chalk

Measurements
38.5 × 18.8 cm irreg. (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1936

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Freedberg pp. 67, 84; Shearman pp. 364-65

Accession Number
351-4

Department
International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Religion and Mythology

Subjects (specific)
full-length figures John the Baptist, Saint (Abrahamic religion iconography) line drawings (drawings) men (male humans)

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Renaissance Drawings from the Uffizi
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Prospero Fontana’s Holy Family with saints
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Observations on the red chalk figure studies of Baccio Bandinelli: two examples at Melbourne
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The Poussin Project

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