Infant Saint John the Baptist
Unknown Spanish, Spanish
1660-1674
Graphite, pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper
Overall: 4 3/4 × 2 7/8 in. (12.1 × 7.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H, through Friends of the Dartmouth Library
D.962.88.14
Geography
Place Made: Spain, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on verso, in graphite: Menedez?
Exhibition History
"In Pursuit of Attribution: A New Look a the College Collection", Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, June 17-October 23, 1977.
Provenance
Collection of Tancred Borenius (1885-1948), London,19330s-1940s, sold at Parke-Bernet, New York, 1952; sold to Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986), New York art dealer, date unknown; sold to Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York, October 1962; given to present collection, 1962.
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