Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Prints and Drawings

c. 1590

Agostino Carracci
Italian, 1557-1602

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Artist: Agostino Carracci
Title: Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1585–1595
Medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of red chalk, on pieced cream laid paper (oval), laid down on cream card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "A. Carats"
Dimensions: 30.6 × 40.8 cm (12 1/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.101
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Clovis Whitfield, “The Landscapes of Agostino Carracci,” Les Carrache et les décors profanes (École Française de Rome, 1988), p. 84.

London, Lawrence Gallery, 1835–36, cat. 46.
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, “The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings,” 1954, pp. 17–18, cat. 38, cat. by P. A. Tomory.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hatton Gallery, King’s College, “The Carracci: Drawings and Paintings,” 1961, cat. 55.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Drawings and Prints by the Carracci,” 1973, cat. 8.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, “Italian Drawings and Prints around 1600,” 1974–75.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Old Master Drawings,” 1976, p. 76, cat. 88, cat. by Ebria Feinblatt.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Gifts of a Lifetime,” 1998–99, checklist 11.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 40, cat. 15 (ill.).

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.

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