The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

c. 1720

Carlo Antonio Tavella

Artist, Genoese, 1668 - 1738

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 39 × 29.9 cm (15 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
    mount: 40.5 × 31.1 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
    framed: 59.69 × 44.45 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.57.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

[Nicolas Schwed, Paris]; purchased 2012 by NGA

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2020

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Inscriptions

by artist [?], upper right, in pen and brown ink: 3.2. / 3.; by later hand, lower left, in pen and black ink: Tavella; by later hand, lower left mount, in pen and brown ink: Tavella No 33. Collezione Santo Varni; by later hand, center mount verso, in graphite: 53 [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q64538060


You may be interested in

Loading Results