Flight into Egypt

1650s

Sébastien Bourdon

Associated Names
Sébastien Bourdon

Artist, French, 1616 - 1671

This is a drawing of a pastoral scene with a traveler, a woman carrying a child, and a donkey. The drawing depicts a serene landscape with a detailed foreground. There is a figure leading a donkey across a stone bridge over a small stream. The person is holding the reins of the donkey, whose head is slightly lowered. Adjacent to them is a woman cloaked in drapery, holding a child securely in her arms, and they are partially concealed by lush foliage. Behind them, the landscape is marked by elegantly drawn trees with plentiful leaves and distant rocky formations, adding depth to the scene. The scene captures a gentle, quiet moment set against a backdrop of undulating hills and sparse vegetation.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.52 cm (11 1/4 in.), trimmed within platemark
    mount: 34.7 × 28.5 cm (13 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.113.41

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil 1967, no. 18, State iii/iii


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. 18,iii/iii

2000

  • Thuillier, Jacques. Sébastien Bourdon, 1616 - 1671. Paris, 2000: no. 265, iii/iii.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: S. Bourdon, in et sculp. cum privil.


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