Flight into Egypt: Altered from Tobias and the Angel by Hercules Segers
Medium
Etching reworked with drypoint and burin by Rembrandt; fifth of six states
Dimensions
Plate: 8 7/16 × 11 in. (21.4 × 28 cm) Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 1/2 in. (23 × 29.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.19.4
Tags
About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Hercules Segers · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...