The Flight into Egypt

probably 1662

Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and bitten tone

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Benedict

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.6 x 21.7 cm (8 1/2 x 8 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 22.9 x 22.9 cm (9 x 9 in.)

  • Accession

    1977.22.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 13, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1989

  • Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no. 125, repro.

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 29.

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906, no. 13, i/ii.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no. 13, i/ii.

1989

  • Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.125.

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 29.

2001

  • Talbierska, Jolanta.AKWAFORTY ZE ZBIOROW GABINETU RYCIN BIBLIOTEKI UNIWERSYTECKIEJ W WARSZAWIE / Etchings from the Collection of the Print Room of the Warsaw University Library. Warsaw, 2001: no. IV. 1.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: SDB

Wikidata ID

Q65577903

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