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Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511
- Artist
- Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg
- Date
- ca. 1511
- Medium
- Oil, gold, and white metal on spruce
- Size
- Overall 35 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (89.5 x 76.8 cm); painted surface 34 3/8 x 29 3/4 in. (87.3 x 75.6 cm)
- Where to see it
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds; The Vincent Astor Foundation, The Dillon Fund, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, Lawrence A. Fleischman, Mrs. Henry J. Heinz II, The Willard T. C. Johnson Foundation Inc., Reliance Group Holdings Inc., Baron H. H. Thyssen-Bornemisza, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gifts; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; special funds; and other gifts and bequests, by exchange, 1983 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗
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