Of the hundreds of representations of St. John the Baptist, few portray the saint as an adolescent, that is until the XIX^th Century. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicts a young, adolescent, somewhat androgynous St. John the Baptist (1820) standing in a manner that suggests the arrogance of youth. The face is strangely feminine as he glances out of the picture plane (See illustration below). Some one-hundred years later, the German artist Theodor Baierl, who is sometimes referred to as a painter out of his time, depicted an adolescent St. John the Baptist (1920) with the sensitivity of a German Renaissance painter. The lithe young saint gazes lovingly at the lamb he holds and tenderly touches its ear (See illustration below). In both cases the saint’s masculine quality is yet to be realized.