The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
c. 1720
Artist, Genoese, 1668 - 1738

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white, on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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