Caravaggio - John the Baptist. Reclining Baptist 1610
John the Baptist. Reclining Baptist 1610
106x179cm oil/canvas
Private Collection
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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The canvas is identifiable with the painting that was at Palazzo Cellammare in Naples, at Costanza Colonna, Marchioness of Caravaggio, along with a work of the same subject (the San Giovanni Battista of the Borghese collection) and a Magdalene, as evidenced by the letter the Apostolic Nuncio in the Kingdom of Naples Deodato Gentile to Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese in Rome, on July 29, 1610 (Pacelli 1994, pp. 141–155).