Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

early to mid-16th century

Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini Verdi) Italian, 1494 - 1557

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About the Artwork

Title Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Artwork Date early to mid-16th century

Artist Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini Verdi)

Life Dates 1494 - 1557

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas, transferred from panel

Dimensions Unframed: 41 × 30 inches (104.1 × 76.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of A. W. M. Mensing

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 34.191

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on Baptist's banderole: VOS CHLAMANTIS IN DESERTO PARAT VIA DOMINI Inscribed, reverse of transfer canvas, brown ink: schule Raphael's | .2.

Provenance

1787, aquired in (Naples, Italy) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein [1751-1829] (Kassel, Germany);
1808, acquired by Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Oldenburg [1755-1829] (Oldenburg, Germany);
until 1924, by descent to Grand Dukes of Oldenburg (Oldenburg, Germany);
June 25, 1924, auctioned by (Fr. Muller, Amsterdam, Netherlands), lot 103;
collection of A. W. M. Mensing (Amsterdam, Netherlands);
1934-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bode, W. von. Die grossherzogliche Gemälde-Galerie in Oldenburg. Vienna, 1888, p. 20 [as school of Raphael].

Gronau, G. Correggio. Berlin & Leipzig, 1907, p. 151, (repr. only) [in Oldenburg, Grossherzogl. Picture Gallery].

Venturi, A. Storia dell'arte italiana, vol. 9, no. 2 (1926): p. 525n [in Dukes of Oldenburg palace].

Venturi, A. Correggio. Milan, 1926, p. 126 [see also 1930 ed., p. 35].

Ricci, C. Correggio. London & New York, 1930, p. 38, 154; pl. 31[in Oldenburg, Formerly in the Grand Ducal Gallery; questioned as by Correggio, ca. 1514-15 (?)].

Valentiner, W. R. "St. John in the Wilderness by Correggio," Bulletin of the DIA 14, no. 6 (March 1935): pp. 70-73, (repr. on cover, det.).

Venturi, A. Correggio. Milan, 1936, p. 35.

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 31, no. 489 [as Correggio].

Fredericksen and Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. 1972, p. 56 [as a follower of Correggio ?].

Weiss, H. F. "Zu Heinrich von Kleists Reise nach Paris im Jahre 1801," Archiv, vol. 142 (1990): pp. 1-12, esp. pp. 7-10.

Dohe, Sebastian. “‘ein wahres Original’—Tischbein, ‘Raffael’ und die Großherzogliche Gemäldegalerie in Oldenburg,” Oldenburger Jahrbuch 115 (2015): 193-208 (ill.).

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Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini Verdi), Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, early to mid-16th century, oil on canvas, transferred from panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of A. W. M. Mensing, 34.191.