id:			130707
accession number:	1953.424
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.424
updated:		2025-04-25 11:01:16.460000

Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1550–1650. Spain or Northern Italy, mid 16th - mid 17th century. Oil on canvas; framed: 80.6 x 104.8 x 7.6 cm (31 3/4 x 41 1/4 x 3 in.); unframed: 50 x 75.2 cm (19 11/16 x 29 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1953.424

title:				Head of Saint John the Baptist
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creation date:			c. 1550–1650
creation date earliest:		1550
creation date latest:		1650
current location:		118 Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Spain or Northern Italy, mid 16th - mid 17th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

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measurements: Framed: 80.6 x 104.8 x 7.6 cm (31 3/4 x 41 1/4 x 3 in.); Unframed: 50 x 75.2 cm (19 11/16 x 29 5/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Inscription of ribbon entwining the reed cross: ECCE AGNUS DEI
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Venetian Tradition
	opening date:   1956-11-08T05:00:00
	<i>The Venetian Tradition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Vienna, Sezesion (second exhibition by the Verein der Museumfreunde), 1924: "Meisterwerker Italienischer Renaissance Kunst aus Privtbesitz," cat. no. 112.', 'opening_date': '1924-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Venice, Palazo Pésaro, 1935: "Mostra di Tiziano," cat. no. 63 (catalogue by Gino Fogliari).', 'opening_date': '1935-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, 1956: "The Venetian Tradition," cat. no. 22, pl. IX. (Catalogue by Henry S Francis).', 'opening_date': '1956-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	[Alessandro Brass, Venice], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Francis, Henry. "Portraits by Lorenzo Lotto." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>44, no. 3 (March 1957): 43-46.<br><br>Attributed to Lorenzo Lotto
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 42; Mentioned: p. 45
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142195

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 97
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n119/mode/2up

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 97
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n121

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 111
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n131

	The Cleveland Museum of Art<em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 442
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	Brettell, Richard R. <em>On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne</em>. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 56, no. 40
	url:		

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IMAGES

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