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Saint John the Baptist Being Prepared for Decapitation

Drawing
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Schut, Cornelis I (copy after)
Place of origin
Belgium (drawn)

Saint John the Baptist preparing for decapitation, the executioner standing behind, baring his right arm; one assistant holds his sword, while another prepares the Saint for execution; Pen on grey paper, washed with sepia, heightened with white and the drapery with lake.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleSaint John the Baptist Being Prepared for Decapitation (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and black ink, with brown, pink and yellow wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
Pen
Wash
White
Paper
Drawing (Image-Making)
Wash Technique
Heightening
Brief description
Drawing 'Saint John the Baptist Being Prepared for Decapitation', copy after Cornelis Schut the elder, pen and ink
Physical description
Saint John the Baptist preparing for decapitation, the executioner standing behind, baring his right arm; one assistant holds his sword, while another prepares the Saint for execution; Pen on grey paper, washed with sepia, heightened with white and the drapery with lake.
Dimensions
  • Height: 313mm
  • Width: 212mm
Style
Flemish School
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), 533.
  • Inscribed on washed mount, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with the original Dyce inv. no.), 204.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.
Subjects depicted
Execution
Executioner
Sword
Men
John (Saint John the Baptist)
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. II, cat. 543, pp. 470-71
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.533

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O240602/saint-john-the-baptist-being-drawing-unknown/
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