The Flight into Egypt
1613
Artist, Dutch, 1585 - 1648

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 34.5 × 39.5 cm (13 9/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
mount: 35 × 40 cm (13 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1941.1.159
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2015
Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts, Toledo Museum of Art; Museum of Islamic Art, Doha; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2015-2016, unnumbered catalogue, repro. (shown only in Baltimore).
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
1981
Ackley, Clifford S. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. Exh. cat. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1981:, pp.73-75, 44.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, below image: Profugit in tenebris lux mundi, et conditor orbis / Exul apud Pharios latitat (res mira) tyrannos. / Rebus in adversis exemplum hinc sumite Christi, / Quem semper tristi fortuna exercuit ira. H. Goudt. Palat. Comes et Aur. Mil. Eques 1613; recto: at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: B-159 [upsidedown]; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: 66. 1[circled]. T[?]. 66 / H. Goudt And. 3
Markings
recto: none; verso: Dublette der Albertina (Lugt 5g)
Watermarks
fleur de lis over shield
Wikidata ID
Q64957619