The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1633-1636

Christoffel Jegher

Artist, Flemish, 1596 - 1652/1653

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed in black from line block only on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 46.6 × 60.6 cm (18 3/8 × 23 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.6.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 4, State ii/iii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Friedrich de la Motte-Fouquet (1795-1874), Cologne (Lugt 778)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

recto: in block, at bottom left: P. P. Rub. delin. & exc.; in block, at bottom center: CVM PRIVILEGIIS; in block, at bottom right C.Jegher sculp.; verso: at upper right, in black ink, in later hand: Pierre Paul Rubens; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: Sch: 114 / B p 55 No 23 / [indecipherable] / Hollstein 4 II/3 / C. 30749 HA

Markings

recto: none; verso: Heinrich Friedrich de la Motte-Fouquet (Lugt 778)

Wikidata ID

Q65508045

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