St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness

St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness is an oil painting on panel by the Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, created c. 1489. The painting was acquired by the Spanish collector Lázaro Galdiano in 1913. It is on display in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, in Madrid, Spain.

The painting forms a pair with St. John the Evangelist on Patmos which is in Berlin. In the 1940s it was noticed that the two paintings could have been designed as the wings of an altarpiece. It has since been suggested that the altarpiece in question was an artwork which is known to have been made for St. John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch. The painting is difficult to date. If the 's-Hertogenbosch hypothesis is correct, the date would be around 1489, although later dates have been proposed based on other criteria.

John the Baptist is often depicted with a lamb. The animal is said to symbolise the sacrifice of the saint …

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