Saint John the Baptist
XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Pencil ground, Grey-brown ink on paper.Not on display
After the figure of St. John the Baptist in Jacopo Tintoretto´s Baptism of Christ in the church of S. Silvestro, Venice. A similar figure also occurs in a number of other painted compositions of the subject by Tintoretto and his studio. One, in the Cleveland Museum of Art, is generally considered to be by Jacopo. Others, including one formerly in the collection of C. F. Sandborn and another in the Prado, are thought to be the work of the artist´s studio, very probably by the artist´s son Domenico.
