Return from the Flight into Egypt, c.1592

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.8 x 25.2 cm (7 x 9 15/16 in.)

sheet: 18.9 x 26.4 cm (7 7/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 33, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2012.92.517

Artists / Makers

Jacques de Gheyn II (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Karel van Mander I (artist after) Netherlandish, 1548 - 1606

Robert de Baudous (publisher) Flemish, 1574/1575 - after 1655

Jacques Razet (publisher) Dutch, active 1589 - 1609

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, in image, in plate: Robb. de baud. exc; lower right, in image, in plate: KVMand Inuent: JDGheyn sculp: JRazet divulgavit; below image, in plate: Magne Puer Pharias profugus dum cedis in oras, / Sanctorum chorus aligerûm adblanditur eunti. / Ipsa etiam arudens offert sua munera tellus. / O fortunatam nimium tanto hospite gentem. (Big boy, while you flee to Pharaoh's domain, / the choir of winged saints caress you during your journey. / Even that country willingly presents you its gifts. / Oh, all too blessed people for such an important guest.)

[translation by Jan Bloemendal in _The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700_. (Karel van Mander, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1999, no. 47, p. lxviii.]

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 19, 1973; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Tunick, Inc., David

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 378, i/i

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (De Gheyn Family, Jan Piet Filedt Kok and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 33, ii/iii.