Saint John the Baptist is shown as a boy of about fourteen, full-length, walking and gesturing to the right. He wears a wine-red robe over a pale green undergarment and carries a reed cross in his left hand. This is a feeble copy, probably by an English artist, after a picture in the Royal Collection (RCIN 400120), itself a copy after a part of an original triptych by Correggio painted c. 1520-5 for the high altar of S. Maria della Misericordia, Correggio. The artist has here altered the background to a landscape rather than an architectural scene.