Keywords: Mattia Preti - San Giovanni Battista Predicazione.jpg Artwork creator Mattia Preti A dramatic image of w St John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness ca 1665 oil canvas cm 217 2 170 2 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Legion of Honor Gallery 6 accession number 1981 32 http //art famsf org/mattia-preti-il-cavaliere-calabrese/st-john-baptist-preaching-198132 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco cite book Nash Steven A Orr Lynn Federle Masterworks of European Painting in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 58 “59 https //books google com/books id u9Et3Te5KqgC pg PA58 object history Private collection Belgium credit line Museum purchase Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund and Kathryn Bache Miller Fund 59184~91780 PD-old-100 Mattia Preti California Palace of the Legion of Honor - European Painting 17th-century paintings of John the Baptist 1660s paintings from Italy Pointing up in art 1665 oil on canvas paintings in the United States Paintings of John the Baptist in the United States |