About this artwork
Early German drawings such as this striking sheet are rare. Here the artist emulated a sculptural relief on a brown wash ground using a chiaroscuro technique (contrasting light and dark). The saint is depicted drawing poison out of a chalice of wine by blessing it, turning the toxin into a snake.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Hans Franckenberger, the Elder
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Title
- Saint John the Evangelist
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1519
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Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, prepared with a brown wash ground, laid down on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- 29.2 × 20.3 cm (11 1/2 × 8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
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Reference Number
- 2013.160
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/218916/manifest.json
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