# Saint John the Baptist

- By: Francesco Francia (Italian, c. 1450–1517)
- Date: second half of the 16th century
- Medium: Pen and brown iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 14 × 10.9 cm (5 9/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Gift of Anne Searle Bent
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/207742)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d725124921c6e963841a77cd6c656054.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)