Saint John the Evangelist
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, prepared with a brown wash ground, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 29.2 × 20.3 cm (11 1/2 × 8 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
pen and ink drawingsprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Early German drawings such as this striking sheet are rare. Here the artist emulated a sculptural relief on a brown wash ground using a chiaroscuro technique (contrasting light and dark). The saint is depicted drawing poison out of a chalice of wine by blessing it, turning the toxin into a snake.