The Flight into Egypt
1782-1785
Artist, German, 1739 - 1808
Artist After, Dutch, 1620 - 1683
Johann Gottlieb Prestel after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
aquatint and etching in gray and brown
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
mount: 48.6 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 18.4 × 18.4 cm (7 1/4 × 7 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1948.11.294
Associated Artworks
See all 36 artworks
Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets)
Maria Catharina Prestel, Regina Schönecker, Johann Georg Sturm, Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen, Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Three Lansquenets
Maria Catharina Prestel
1780
Saint Barbara
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
in plate, below image, to right: No 36.; in plate, below image, at center, Dessin de Nicolas Berghem. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur Jean Frederic Ettling à Francfort sur le Mein.; in plate, below image, at left: H. S. H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: J. T. Prestel sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65079613