The Flight into Egypt

1613

Hendrik Goudt

Artist, Dutch, 1585 - 1648

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • 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

  • 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


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