The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt)
William Blake
1806
Medium
Watercolor, pen and black ink, over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 13/16 × 14 9/16 in. (35.1 × 37 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number
06.1322.1
Tags
AnimalsSunLandscapesTreesHoly Family
About the Artist
William Blake · 1757–1827
William Blake (1757–1827) stands as one of the most visionary and unconventional artists in British history, a poet-painter-printmaker whose mystical imagination and radical vision profoundly shaped the Romantic movement. Born in London's Soho district, Blake experienced visions from childhood—claiming to see angels in trees at age eight—and these spiritual encounters would guide his art throughou...