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Rembrandt van Rijn

The Flight into Egypt, 1651

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 12.8 x 11.1 cm (5 1/16 x 4 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 53, State vi/vi

Accession Number

1994.60.53

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: D 53; by later hand, lower left verso in brown ink: 36

Provenance

(Artemis Fine Arts, Limited, London); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington, 1982; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 30.

Bibliography

1923: Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969: White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 262, vi/x.

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 30.

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