Art, literature & history
Saint John the Baptist
1550s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with engraving on laid paper, laid down on blue paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 18.4 × 28.7 cm (7 1/4 × 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 19.1 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.) mount: 25.2 × 31.9 cm (9 15/16 × 12 9/16 in.) (all unevenly cut)
- Collection no.
- 2016.18.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Battista Franco. Saint John the Baptist. Battista Franco; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battista_Franco,_Saint_John_the_Baptist,_1550s,_NGA_200838.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Saint John the Baptist — Battista Franco. 1550s.
Medium: etching with engraving on laid paper, laid down on blue paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 18.4 × 28.7 cm (7 1/4 × 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 19.1 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.) mount: 25.2 × 31.9 cm (9 15/16 × 12 9/16 in.) (all unevenly cut).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.18.1. Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.