Rest on the Flight into Egypt, mid-17th century

  • Elizabetta Sirani, Italian, 1638-1665

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (16.8 × 18.1 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1109

Signed, in plate, lower right: Siranus In: ( ) [partially illegible]

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

October 1886, (F. Keppel & Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Elizabetta Sirani, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, mid-17th century, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1109.