Abraham in Aegyptum (Abraham in Egypt)

c. 1650/1670

Claude Macé

Artist, French, 1631 - 1670

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.8 × 45.4 cm (12 1/2 × 17 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 35.1 × 48.7 cm (13 13/16 × 19 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.113.34

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil 1967: no. 113, State ii/iii (as Charles Massé)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967, no. 113 STATE (as Charles Massé)

1982

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 38 (works after Castiglione; as Charles Massé))

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Gio. Benedetto. Castiglione Genovese in. / G. Chasteau, ex. cum privilegio Regis. / Rue St. Jacques a l'Ange Gardien; lower center in plate: Abraham in AEgyptum cum uxore sua ob famen peregrinature. Gen. 12. ; by later hand, lower center in pen and brown ink: aBraham va en Egypte avec sa famille pour luiter lafamine

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