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Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Diego Velázquez, 1618
For a long time this hung under 'unknown Sevillian painter' — only fairly recently did anyone decide it's an early Velázquez, from before he'd really found his style. The purple cloth is apparently a deliberate touch too, a color tied to preparation, since John's whole story is about getting the way ready for someone else.
Erisava: That purple cloth is the only soft color in all this dark — perhaps it symbolizes something.