Art, literature & history
Saint John Preaching in the Desert
1634/1635
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 7.5 × 9.1 cm (2 15/16 × 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 11.1 × 14 cm (4 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.5.430
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Callot. Saint John Preaching in the Desert. Jacques Callot; 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:Jacques_Callot,_Saint_John_Preaching_in_the_Desert,_NGA_36884.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 Preaching in the Desert — Jacques Callot. 1634/1635.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 7.5 × 9.1 cm (2 15/16 × 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 11.1 × 14 cm (4 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.5.430. Rosenwald Collection.
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.