The Flight into Egypt, 1640/1645

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.9 x 20.7 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 12

Accession Number

1985.7.2

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Gio BENED.8 CASTIGLIONVS / GENONOVESE / IN.PIN.; upper right in plate publisher imprint; lower center in plate dedication to aDon Luigi Pio; on verso inscribed by dealer in graphite

Provenance

Flower? (unidentified)

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1971: Percy 1971, E17.