Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Provenance

Lord Hampden (1749–1825), Glynde Place, England [Leicester 1954]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London [his stamp (Lugt 2445), lower, right, in black]; sold by Samuel Woodburn, London, to Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857); sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 1972, lot 39, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Agostino Carracci

c. 1590

Accession Number

149024

Medium

Pen and brown ink, over traces of red chalk, on pieced cream laid paper (oval), laid down on cream card

Dimensions

30.6 × 40.8 cm (12 1/16 × 16 1/8 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection