Saint John the Evangelist | |
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Artist | El Greco |
Year | c.1605 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 90 cm × 77 cm (35 in × 30 in) |
Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
Saint John the Evangelist is a c.1605 work by El Greco, produced towards the end of his time in Toledo, Spain. [1] It now hangs in the Museo del Prado, to which it was left in 1921 by the collector César Cabañas Caballero. [2]
The painting shows John the Evangelist as a young man holding a chalice, with a small dragon in it, referring to his surviving a poisoned cup of wine in prison. It is very similar to the painting of the same subject by the same painter in Toledo Cathedral.