Birth of Saint John the Baptist

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Location: 
Not on view
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Pedro García de Benabarre
Documented in Zaragoza, Benabarre, Barcelona, Lleida and Barbastro, 1445-1485
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Inside a room with a wood beamed ceiling, several damsels surround the mother of the Newborn baby, Saint Elizabeth, offering her food and drink. The new mother is lying on the bed, praying, accompanied by the Virgin Mary who, in the foreground, is holding Saint John the Baptist on her lap. Next to her a maid is heating some nappies over a lit brazier.Works of the set.Saint Michael Archangel, Pedro García de Benabarre, 1455-1480. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston).

Painting

c. 1473-1482

196.5 x 122 x 7 cm

Purchase, 1907

Inventory number: 

024102-000

Century: 15th
Subject: Religion
Egg tempera and gilt on wood; Fibra liberiana
Compartment of an altarpiece devoted to Saint John the Baptist. The museum keeps five more panels from the same work. Another panel with Saint Michael is kept at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) and the whereabouts of other pieces is unknown. From the parish church of Sant Joan del Mercat de Lleida.
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Pere Garcia de Benavarri - Naixement de sant Joan Baptista - Cap a 1473-1482