The Flight into Egypt

c. 1664

Baldassare Franceschini

Associated Names
Baldassare Franceschini

Artist, Florentine, 1611 - 1689

The image features swirling lines and curvilinear shapes creating an intricate and abstract composition. Some shapes are reminiscent of organic elements like flowers and flowing garments. There is a sense of motion and fluidity in the composition. At the top, there is a curvature resembling an archway or window frame, providing structure to the overall pattern.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 1980, no. 37); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 24.

2011

  • Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 37.

Bibliography

1986

  • Guidi, Giuliana, and Daniela Marcucci, eds. Il Seicento Fiorentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III. 3 vols. Exh. cat. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1986: 2:340, under no. 2.309 (entry by Maria Cecilia Fabbri).

1992

  • Birke, Veronika, and Janine Kertész. Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Vienna, 1992-1997, 4: 2292, under Inv. 23929.

1995

  • Fabbri, Maria Cecilia. Due bozzetti di Ciro Ferri e del Volterrano per il soffitto della Santissima Annunziata a Firenze. Florence, 1995: 13, 14, 24 note 22, fig. 4.

Wikidata ID

Q64537114

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