Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Medium
Pen and brown ink; framing lines in dark brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 6 3/8 x 7 7/16 in. (16.2 x 18.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.161
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About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Ferdinand Bol · 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...