SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST IN THE WILDERNESS, Giovanni Baglione

ROME CIRCA 1566 - 1643 (?)

Giovanni Baglione

signed and dated, center left: EQ IO. / BALGIONVS / .R.P.1610
oil on canvas
76 3/8 by 59 1/2 in.; 194 by 151 cm.

Provenance:
Possibly commissioned from the artist by Cardinal Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto (1571-1623), Rome, who paid 100 scudi for a painting of this subject on 3 August 1610;
Possibly by descent in the family, included in 1655 inventory of the collection;
Private collection, Italy, by 1970;
Thence by descent in the family;
By whom anonymously sold ("Property from a European Private Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 5 December 2012, lot 19 (where it bore a later inscription lower right: CARRACCI);
There acquired.