Saint John the Baptist as a Boy is a painting by the Flemish artist Michaelina Wautier.

It depicts Saint John the Baptist as a young shepherd, wearing a sheepskin cover over his right shoulder and with the traditional attributes of a lamp and a simple wooden staff in the shape of a cross.

It was painted in the 1650s and is now in the collection of the Museo Lazaro Galdiano in Madrid.

The work was previously attributed to the Spanish painter Juan Martín Cabezalero.

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