Nicolás Enríquez
The Baptism of Christ

1773
Oil on copper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.171

This is the usual iconography except for the absence of angels or other figures on the banks of the river and the addition of the long cross in John's left hand.

Emerging from the Father's mouth are the words Hic est Filius meus dilectus in quo mihi bene conplacui, "Here is my Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). The banner on the long cross has the words Ecce agnus dei, "Behold the lamb of God" (John 1:29, 36).

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Photographed at the museum by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.