The Flight into Egypt
Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
305 x 394 mm (12 x 15 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129292
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Flight into Egypt, Italian School 17th century. Joseph walks beside Mary and Child on a donkey in a classical landscape with two putti overhead.
Provenance
In Swift 1811 inventory; thence by descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist