The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Provenance

George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1976, lot 240 (ill.), withdrawn; transferred to the Art Institute, 1984.

Publications

Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 9, Cambridge, Mass., 1947, p. 797, fig. 332. Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, p. 263, no. 2106 José Camón Aznar, Pintura medieval española, Summa artis 22, Madrid, 1966, p. 589. Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 89-92, ill.

Quick Overview

Artist: Master of Palanquinos (Spanish, active c. 1470–1500)
Date: c. 1490–c. 1500
Medium: Tempera and oil on panel
Dimensions: 109 × 73.7 cm (42 7/8 × 29 in.); Framed: 129.9 × 95.3 × 8.3 cm (51 1/8 × 37 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on panel
Style: 15th century
Place: Spain
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: George F. Harding Collection
Accession no.: 1984.19

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.