The Holy Family on the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

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Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 12 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (31.1 × 21.6 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Fern and Lewis Lowenfels, 2022

Accession Number

2022.459.2

About the Artist

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi · 16061680

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606–1680), known as "Il Bolognese," was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher whose career exemplifies the wide influence of the Bolognese school of landscape painting in seventeenth-century Rome. Born in Bologna, Grimaldi trained in the tradition of the Carracci, whose idealized approach to landscape — blending careful observation of nature with classical compo...

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