The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1490/1500

Master of Palanquinos (Spanish, active c. 1470–1500)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Master of Palanquinos
Title: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Place: Spain (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1490–1500
Medium: Tempera and oil on panel
Dimensions: 109 × 73.7 cm (42 7/8 × 29 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1984.19
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Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 9, Cambridge, Mass., 1947, p. 797, fig. 332.
Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, p. 263, no. 2106
José Camón Aznar, Pintura medieval española, Summa artis 22, Madrid, 1966, p. 589.
Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 89-92, ill.

George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1976, lot 240 (ill.), withdrawn; transferred to the Art Institute, 1984.

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