   The infant St John the Baptist Engraving print, by Antoine Louis Romanet, possibly after Annibale Carracci, published after 1786 The British Museum, London The infant Saint John the Baptist sleeps naked on a bed of vegetation, his head resting on one arm while the other holds a cross-shaped staff, a traditional attribute associated with him. A small stream flows in the foreground, reinforcing his connection to baptism. In the background, trees frame a distant kneeling figure—possibly an adult Saint John the Baptist—near an architectural structure. Below the main composition are the arms of the Dauphin of France.   |
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