# The Infant St. John the Baptist

- By: Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville)
- Date: 1618–82
- Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash over black chalk underdrawing. Composition outlined with black chalk inner line and brush and gray wash outer line; framing lines ruled in pen and gray-brown ink, possibly by the artist himself
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 4-3/8 x 5-5/8 in. (11.1 x 14.3 cm)
- Culture: Spanish
- Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1963
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336190)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP800239.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)