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Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Netherlandish School
16th century

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

5 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (130 x 172 mm)
Opaque watercolor in blue-green, black, brown, red, pink, ochre, green, white, and gold on parchment; framing line in gold.
I, 114

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, in brush and brown ink, "P. Brevgel F".
Associated names
Bruegel, Pieter, 1564-1638, Formerly attributed to.
Blomfield, G. J., Rev., former owner.
Cohen, active 1894, former owner.
Panciatichi, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 13, no. 18, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : drawings by the old masters formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 114, repr. (as P. Brueghel)
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department