The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece (reverse copy)

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece (reverse copy) by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Francesco Novelli

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 3 9/16 × 2 3/8 in. (9 × 6 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947

Accession Number

47.100.86

Tags

ChristVirgin MaryMen

About the Artist

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Francesco Novelli · 16061669

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...

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