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    Rest on the Flight into Egypt
    Agostino Carracci. Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1590. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005732

    Rest on the Flight into Egypt

    by Agostino Carracci

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "A. Carats"

    Provenance

    Lord Hampden (1749–1825), Glynde Place, England [Leicester 1954]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London [his stamp (Lugt 2445), lower, right, in black]; sold by Samuel Woodburn, London, to Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857); sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 1972, lot 39, to Robert M. Light, Boston, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

    Exhibition history

    London, Lawrence Gallery, 1835–36, cat. 46. Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, "The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings," 1954, pp. 17–18, cat. 38, cat. by P. A. Tomory. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hatton Gallery, King’s College, "The Carracci: Drawings and Paintings," 1961, cat. 55. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Drawings and Prints by the Carracci," 1973, cat. 8. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Italian Drawings and Prints around 1600," 1974–75. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings," 1976, p. 76, cat. 88, cat. by Ebria Feinblatt. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998–99, checklist 11. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 40, cat. 15 (ill.).

    Publications

    Clovis Whitfield, “The Landscapes of Agostino Carracci,” Les Carrache et les décors profanes (École Française de Rome, 1988), p. 84.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Agostino Carracci / Italian, 1557-1602
    Date
    c. 1590
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, over traces of red chalk, on pieced cream laid paper (oval), laid down on cream card
    Dimensions
    30.6 × 40.8 cm (12 1/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1998.101

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