The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1682
Artist, French, 1604/1605 - 1682
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray and blue wash and graphite, heightened with white gouache on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (approximate): 12.6 x 16.6 cm (4 15/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.1.24
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Catalogue Raisonné
Roethlisberger 1968, no. 1129
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Sr. [1665-1745], London (Lugt 2183) (his sale, 1747); purchased by his son-in-law, Thomas Hudson [1701-1779], London (Lugt 2432); possibly William Bateson [1861-1926], London; Sir James Knowles [831 - 1909] London; (Colnaghi, London, 1908); purchased 20 October 1908 by; R. Horace Gallatin, New York; given to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Claude Lorrain 1600-1682. National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Washington, 1982: 297, no. 75.
2007
Claude Lorrain - The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 (not in cat.; shown only in Washington).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 66-67, 278, no. 24 (color).
Bibliography
1961
Roethlisberger, Marcel. "Drawings by Claude Lorrain in American Museums," The Art Quarterly 24, no. 4 (Winter 1961), 352 (fig. 7), 354.
1968
Roethlisberger, Marcel. Claude Lorrain: The Drawings. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968: no. 1129.
1989
Langdon, Helen. Claude Lorrain. Oxford, 1989: 150, 153, pl. 120.
Inscriptions
in later hand, across bottom verso: Claudio Gillee. f: Romae 1682
Watermarks
partial (undeciphered)
Wikidata ID
Q64540119