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Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Diego Velázquez, The Art Institute of Chicago

Saint John the Baptist in the WildernessDiego Velázquez (1599–1660) · c. 1622The Art Institute of Chicago · Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0) · the museum’s record

A masterwork Flemish and Spanish Baroque

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Diego Velázquez, 1599–1660, painted c. 1622

Held by The Art Institute of Chicago and released as Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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The credit: Every painting made after it carries “after Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, The Art Institute of Chicago” on its plaque, and on the share page.
The licence: Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0), as the museum states it. The credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.

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