The Flight into Egypt

1640/1645

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

Giovanni Domenico de Rossi

Publisher, Italian, 1619-1653

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.6 × 20.7 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 30.5 × 21.4 cm (12 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.66

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 12

1982

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 20, iii/iv

Inscriptions

upper lef in image: Si stampano in Roma per Gio Dom.co Rossa all Pace all Insegna / di Parigi; lower center in image: All Ill.mo Sig Sig et Prom mio Colend / Il Sig Abb. D Luigi Pio / A chi posseno meglio dedicare... / Aff.mo Devot.mo et Obligat.mo / Gio Domenico de Rossi; lower left in image: Con licenza de Superiori; lower right in image: Gio Bened. Castiglione / Genovese / in Pin; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: 666.

Watermarks

fleur-de-lis atop three hills(?) inside two circles

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