Old Master & 19th Century Paintings

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 22. The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist.

Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

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Lot Closed

September 20, 11:24 AM GMT

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3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist


oil on canvas

unframed: 78.5 x 98.8 cm.; 30⅞ x 38¾ in.

framed: 96 x 115.5 cm.; 37⅞ x 45½ in.

This seventeenth-century copy derives from Caravaggio's monumental altarpiece commissioned in 1608 by the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem of Malta in the Oratory of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta.


https://www.stjohnscocathedral.com/the-co-cathedral/caravaggio/