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St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Desert (verso: Two Studies of Female Figures)

(Italian, about 1500–after 1566)
(Italian, 1500–1564)
(Italian, 1501–1556)
about 1549–54
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut (verso: sketch in pen and brown ink)
DimensionsSheet: 30.6 x 42.9 cm (12 1/16 x 16 7/8 in.)(trimmed to, or slightly into, the borderline)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number1975.485
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceJohn Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929)(Lugt 1508); W. G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975
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