The Flight into Egypt

The Flight into Egypt by Sébastien Bourdon

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.3 × 19 cm (8 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 23.6 × 20.4 cm (9 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.) mount: 49.1 × 33.6 cm (19 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

Accession Number

2018.113.43

About the Artist

Sébastien Bourdon · 16161671

Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671) was a French Baroque painter of remarkable versatility and restless ambition, whose career carried him from the workshops of Paris to the courts of Rome and Stockholm before he returned to France to become a founding member of one of Europe's most important artistic institutions. Born on 2 February 1616 in Montpellier into a Protestant family, Bourdon was apprenticed ...

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