Saint John the Baptist
1880
Artists
Dimensions
32.8 x 23.9 cm (12 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Provenance
Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris; his sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, March 15, 1935, no. 12; acquired at that sale through Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, by Grenville L. Winthrop (Fr 25,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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