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The Flight into Egypt, 1630/33. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Image: 10 × 16.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Flight into Egypt
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain French, 1600-1682
- Date
- 1630/33
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 10 × 16.9 cm (3 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Plate: 10.5 × 17.2 cm (4 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 11.4 × 18.2 cm (4 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jr.
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1600–1682
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.