Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Seghers
ca. 1652
Etching engraving and drypoint on paper.
Plate Mark: 213 x 279 mm
RvR 89
NHD number
NHD 271, V
Notes
Matthew 2:14-15.
The third tower [added in previous state] removed and the distance lightened by burnishing. Highlights burnished on the figures and on the ground immediately in front of the Holy Family. Dirty marks from the plate appear on the sky. (White and Boon)
The third tower [added in previous state] removed and the distance lightened by burnishing. Highlights burnished on the figures and on the ground immediately in front of the Holy Family. Dirty marks from the plate appear on the sky. (White and Boon)
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Arms of London.
Provenance
Count Moritz von Fries (1777-1826), Vienna; Hippolyte Dreux (1800-1884), Paris; J. Thorel (1st half of the 19th century), Paris; Johann Carl Diedrich Hebich (1818-1891), Hamburg; Mary Jane Morgan (d. before 1886), New York; George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914); from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1905.
Associated names
Dreux, Hippolyte, 1800-1884, former owner.
Fries, Moritz, Graf von, 1777-1826, former owner.
Hebich, Johann Carl Diedrich, 1818-1891, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, Mary Jane, 1823-1885, former owner.
Thorel, J., 19th cent., former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Fries, Moritz, Graf von, 1777-1826, former owner.
Hebich, Johann Carl Diedrich, 1818-1891, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, Mary Jane, 1823-1885, former owner.
Thorel, J., 19th cent., former owner.
Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School
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