Saint John the Baptist

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Saint John the Baptist

Jan CrocqLinkedCulture matchlcp-62d2985d6ed9

Date
c. 1500
Medium
Tonnerre limestone
Culture
French, Lorraine, Nancy or Bar-le-Duc
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
296825

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John the Baptist was one of the most beloved and widely venerated saints of the Middle Ages. He is depicted here wearing his traditional camel hair fleece beneath a luxuriant outer mantle. The sculpture is attributed to Jan Crocq, a Netherlandish artist active at the court of René II, Duke of Lorraine at Nancy from 1486 to 1510, and noted for his naturalistic treatment of hair and costume. St. John the Baptist holds a book and a lamb, referencing his description of Christ as "the lamb of God."

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
-1792: By repute from the Sainte-Chapelle, Dijon (before 1792) | Mr. E. Ingels, Belgium, late 1800s | -1919: Madame Francois Flameng , Paris, France | May 26-27, 1919: Sale: May 26-27, 1919, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, lot 195 | 1919-: (Jacques Seligmann, Paris, France) | -1928: Bela Hein (1883-1931), Paris, sold to Brummer Galleries, New York | 1928-1933: Brummer Galleries, New York, NY, sold to The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art | 1933-1991: The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, (after 1983 known as The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), inv. no. 33-69 | 1991: De-Accessioned by the Nelson-Atkins in 1991; sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 1 June 1991, lot 18 | 1991-2014: Private collection, Belgium, sold at auction at Sotheby's, London | 2014: Sotheby’s, London (July 10, 2014), lot 67 | 2014-2017: Sam Fogg, London sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2017-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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