2-713-862 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Baptism of Christ', 1445-1450, (1943). Jesus stands in the River Jordan as John the Baptist, kneeling on a projecting rock, pours baptismal water over Christ's head. An angel holds Christ's clothing. Above is the figure of God the Father and the dove representing the Holy Ghost. Drawing in the Louvre Museum, Paris. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943]