The Flight into Egypt
1640s
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
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 · 1616–1671
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 ...