The Flight into Egypt, 1613

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 34.5 × 39.5 cm (13 9/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
mount: 35 × 40 cm (13 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 3

Accession Number

1941.1.159

Artists / Makers

Hendrik Goudt (artist) Dutch, 1585 - 1648

Adam Elsheimer (artist after) German, 1578 - 1610

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image: Profugit in tenebris lux mundi, et conditor orbis / Exul apud Pharios latitat (res mira) tyrannos. / Rebus in adversis exemplum hinc sumite Christi, / Quem semper tristi fortuna exercuit ira. H. Goudt. Palat. Comes et Aur. Mil. Eques 1613; recto: at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: B-159 [upsidedown]; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: 66. 1[circled]. T[?]. 66 / H. Goudt And. 3

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Dublette der Albertina (Lugt 5g)

Provenance

Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g)

Associated Names

Albertina
Allen, W.G. Russell, Mr.

Exhibition History

2015: Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts, Toledo Museum of Art; Museum of Islamic Art, Doha; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2015-2016, unnumbered catalogue, repro. (shown only in Baltimore).

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1981: Ackley, Clifford S. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. Exh. cat. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1981:, pp.73-75, 44.