REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

St John the Baptist preaching, study for frame

c. 1655
Brown ink and wash, white body colour, 145 x 204 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Catalogue number: Benesch 969.

Following the completion of the Hundred-guilder print, Rembrandt sold the painting of St John the Baptist Preaching to his patron and friend Jan Six, designing a frame for it in the process.




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