The Flight into Egypt
- Date
- c. 1647/1650
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
-
82 1/2 x 65 1/2 in. (209.55 x 166.37 cm)
Framed: 125 x 87 x 6 in. (317.5 x 220.98 x 15.24 cm)
Strip Frame for Travel: 84 1/2 x 67 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (214.6 x 171.5 x 5.7 cm)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. K. T. Keller, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Green and Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Green
- Accession No.
- 48.96
- Provenance
- Great Britian, Collection Sir William Chapman, Bt. (1670?--1737);
London, sale, Collection Sir William Chapman, (not cited in Lugt--only known in a manuscript copy at the V & A, MS. 86/00/18, fol. 533)), lot 56;
Mitchem, County of Surrey, England, Collection Sir James Mendez;
Auction Mendez Collection (Langford), February 25-26, 1756, lot 46, bt. by Samson Gideon (not cited in Lugt--only known in a unique printed copy at the V & A, MS. 86/00/18, fol. 285);
Collection Samson Gideon, (1699-1762);
by descent to his son, Sir Sampson Gideon, (later Lord Eardley) Belvedere, Erith, Kent, 1766;
Inherited by his daughter, Maria Marowe who married Lord Saye and Sele;
Great Britain, Collection Lord Saye and Sele until 1848 (inherited from his mother, Maria Marrowe. n.b: Lord Saye & Sele had no issue);
By inheritance to Sir Culling Eardley, 1848;
By descent to Sir Culling Eardley's daughter--Hanbury, Bedwell Park, Hertfordshire, Collection Mrs. Culling Hanbury, 1871;
By descent to Hatfield, Great Britain, Bedwell Park, Collection Sir Francis Fremantle, 1938;
By descent to Collection James Fremantle;
London, auction estate of Sir Francis Fremantle {Christie's) 14 December 1945, lot 27, repr., bought by Maurice Harris;
London Collection Maurice Harris (until at least 1947);
New York, French & Company (dealer--from whom purchased with partial funding provided by K.T. Keller, Leslie H. Green and Robert N. Green and donated to the DIA in 1948.
- Keywords
-
canvas, oil, paint, religion, christian
Published References
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Curtis, C. B., ¦Velázquez and Murillo¦, London and New York, 1883, no. 127. (As Murillo)
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