# Saint John the Baptist Preaching, in Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)'s contemporaries

Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) painted this in about 1650, aged about 32. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1650
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 68 x 47 3/4 in. (172.7 x 121.3 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.477
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/mattia-preti-il-cavalier-calabrese), Italian, 1613–1699

1 works in the collection.

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