The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

c. 1626

Guercino

Artist, Bolognese, 1591 - 1666

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash, squared with black chalk, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.6 x 37.6 cm (9 5/16 x 14 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1979.14.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Dimsdale (1758-1823); Earl Brownlow; Dan Fellows Platt [1873-1938], Englewood, New Jersey (Lugt Supp.2066b); John Davis Hatch, Lenox, Massachusetts; purchased 1979 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1973-1974, no. 12 (Franklin W. Robinson).

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1991

  • Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino (1591-1666), Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 1991, no. 58 (Denis Mahon).

  • Guercino, Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections, Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: no. 20.

Bibliography

1967

  • Mahon, Denis. I Disegni del Guercino della collezione Mahon. Bologna, 1967: 38.

1968

  • Mahon, Denis. Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666), Catalogo Critico dei Disegni. Exh. cat. Palazzo del Archiginnasio, Bologna, 1969: 110.

1970

  • Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Guercino's Versions of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt and the Lancellotti Tondo," Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin, March 1970: 97, fig. 5.

1983

  • Bagni, Prisco. Guercino a Piacenza: gli affreschi nella cupola della cattedrale. Bologna, 1983: 130-131, no. 51.

1984

  • Bagni, Prisco. Gli affeschi del Guercino nel Duomo di Piacenza. Cittadella (Padova), 1984: 133, no. 98.

1988

  • Salerno, Luigi. I dipinti del Guercino. Rome, 1988, 202, under no. 114L.

1989

  • Mahon, Denis, and Turner, Nicholas. The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. Cambridge, 1989: 23-24, under nos. 40-45.

1990

  • Bentini, Jadranka, and Angelo Mazza, eds. Disegni Emiliani del Sei-Settecento: I grandi cicli di affreschi. Milan, 1990: 94, no. 14.10.

1991

  • Ebert-Schifferer, Sybille, ed. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino, 1591-1666. Exh. cat. Bologna, 1991: 423, under no. 41A.

  • Turner, Nicholas, and Plazzota, Carol. Drawings by Guercino from British Collections. Exh. cat. British Museum, 1991: 92, under no. 62, and 281, under appendix no. 97.

  • Stone, David. "Supplement, Guercino Drawings in North American Collections, A Selective Checklist," in Guercino, Master Draftsman, Works from North American Collections, exh. cat. Harvard University and elsewhere, 1991, 222, no. 162.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower right: [5 or 3?]; lower right verso: From Earl Brownlow / + Dismsdale Colls. / (Parsons, ca1926)+/ ... 1591-1666 / GUERCINO / 731

Wikidata ID

Q64572423

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