The Flight into Egypt

Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610–1664)

1655–60

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Platemark: 25.5 x 19 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 28.8 x 21.5 cm (11 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund

Accession Number58.755

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné De Vesme/Massar 0014, ii/ii

DescriptionEffect of wash achieved by bitten tone or "lavis", which appears in the first state, has almost disappeared

Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenanceP. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London; from whom purchased by MFA September 18, 1958