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The Flight into Egypt
Domenico CampagnolaLinkedCulture matchlcp-e55d72caab59
- Date
- c. 1540
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on dark cream laid paper, laid down on laid paper, with pen and ink and gold ruled lines
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 248304
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This sheet illustrates the Holy Family fleeing from King Herod into Egypt, a biblical story from the Gospel of Matthew. Like most of Campagnola’s drawings, the story provides little more than a cover for his primary interest: landscape. While the palm tree left of center signals the story’s North African location, the dense woods and distant mountains recall the artist’s native Italian countryside. Campagnola played an important role in establishing landscape as a subject in European art and in the rise of drawings as collectible objects in and of themselves.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Provenance
- Peter Lely (1618–1680), London [stamp (L.2092), recto, lower right, in black]. Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1667–1745), London [signature mount]. Boquet et Marty de Cambiaire Fine Art, Paris, by 2013; sold through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Apr. 5, 2016; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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Rest on Flight into EgyptThese objects all depict the biblical scene of the Holy Family resting during their flight into Egypt, a popular subject in Christian art across different European artistic traditions and media.
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