A young man with an animal skin at his waist sits in a wooded landscape, pointing off to one side while his other hand holds a staff and points to the earth. It began as Saint John the Baptist, painted in Leonardo's workshop and now attributed to Francesco Melzi, though other pupils have been proposed. Between 1683 and 1693 it was repainted as the wine god Bacchus.
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The vine wreath, the leopard spots on the skin and the Bacchic thyrsus were all added in the late 1600s; the thyrsus was once John's long, cross-shaped staff.
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