The date of this sketchs ares unknown, though I know he was painting the outside of the Frari in 1880 and the brevity of the sketch falls in line with the same kind of energy of the Two Studies for El Jaleo which were c. 1879-82.
See Donatello's St. John in Juxtaposition with Sargent's
Italian sculptor, Florentine school
(c. 1386 -1466)
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St. John the Baptist c. 1450 |