Rest on the Flight into Egypt | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.7
People: Michel II Corneille, French (Paris 1642 - 1708 Paris)
Previously attributed to Annibale Carracci, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1560 - 1609 Rome, Italy)
Title: Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1680-1690
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/299622

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper strips adhered to face

Technique

Counterproof

Dimensions

28.1 x 19.8 cm (11 1/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: coat-of-arms in a banded circle, surmounted by a crown and a fleur-de-lis (Guiffrey 104)
inscription: old mat in 17th-century hand: Ann. Carachi

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Marquis d'Allègre. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year: 1898
Object Number: 1898.7
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 579

Verification Level

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