The Flight into Egypt

1640/1645

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.9 x 20.7 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.7.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Flower? (unidentified)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2012

  • The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1971

  • Percy 1971, E17.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Gio BENED.8 CASTIGLIONVS / GENONOVESE / IN.PIN.; upper right in plate publisher imprint; lower center in plate dedication to aDon Luigi Pio; on verso inscribed by dealer in graphite

Wikidata ID

Q74067167

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