St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness

ca. 1552–54

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving and Etching. Second state
Dimensions: sheet: 7 3/8 x 11 1/4 in. (18.7 x 28.5 cm) trimmed to platemark
Collection no.: 30.54.82
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Battista Franco. St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness. Battista Franco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness — Battista Franco. ca. 1552–54.

Medium: Engraving and Etching. Second state. Dimensions: sheet: 7 3/8 x 11 1/4 in. (18.7 x 28.5 cm) trimmed to platemark.

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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