Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witnessca. 1600
Annibale Carracci painted this in about 1600, aged about 35. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Annibale Carracci painted this in about 1600, aged about 35. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Oil on copper
- A sheet of copper gives oil paint a hard, glass-smooth surface, ideal for small pictures with jewel-like detail.
- Oil paint
- Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.
Annibale Carracci
Italian, 1560–1609 · Born in Bologna; died in Rome.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2009.252
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Paintings
- Department
- European Paintings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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