The rest on the flight into Egypt (from A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various Old Masters)

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This artwork was created ca. 1750–60.

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Yes, The rest on the flight into Egypt (from A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various Old Masters) is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Pietro Testa|Andrea Scacciati|Arthur Pond|Charles Knapton|John Boydell

ca. 1750–60

The rest on the flight into Egypt (from A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various Old Masters) by Pietro Testa|Andrea Scacciati|Arthur Pond|Charles Knapton|John Boydell

Medium

Etching and aquatint imitating a chiaroscuro woodcut, printed in green

Dimensions

sheet: 11 15/16 x 15 1/4 in. (30.4 x 38.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933

Accession Number

33.13(12)

About the Artist

Pietro Testa|Andrea Scacciati|Arthur Pond|Charles Knapton|John Boydell · 1612–1650

Pietro Testa was born in Lucca in 1612 and, in accordance with the conventions of Italian artistic training, made his way to Rome while still young. There he studied under two of the leading painters of the early seventeenth century: Domenichino, from whom he absorbed a taste for classical restraint and narrative clarity, and Pietro da Cortona, whose more exuberant Baroque manner offered a contras...

The rest on the flight into Egypt (from A Collection of Etchings and Engravings in Imitation of Drawings from Various Old Masters)

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