Title: Saint John on Patmos
Object: Painting
Artist:  Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)
Artist bio: German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg
Date: ca. 1511
Medium: Oil, gold, and white metal on spruce
Dimensions: Overall 35 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (89.5 x 76.8 cm); painted surface 34 3/8 x 29 3/4 in. (87.3 x 75.6 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Department: European Paintings
Credit line: Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds; The Vincent Astor Foundation, The Dillon Fund, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, Lawrence A. Fleischman, Mrs. Henry J. Heinz II, The Willard T. C. Johnson Foundation Inc., Reliance Group Holdings Inc., Baron H. H. Thyssen-Bornemisza, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gifts; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; special funds; and other gifts and bequests, by exchange, 1983
Accession year: 1983
Tags: Eagles|Madonna and Child|Saint John the Evangelist|Saints|Writing