Saint John in the Wilderness

We are grateful to Dr. Luuk Pijl for proposing the attribution on the basis of photographs, who compares it to a Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Elsheimer in The Art Institute of Chicago. Saint John is modelled on the figure in Cornelis Cort’s engraving after an original drawing by Girolamo Muziano, part of a series of seven penitent saints in the wilderness published in circa 1573.