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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1656/69. Etching in black on ivory laid paper.
Etching in black on ivory laid paper · Plate: 16.2 × 17.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- Artist
- Elisabetta Sirani Italian, 1638-1665
- Date
- 1656/69
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 16.2 × 17.5 cm (6 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 17.8 cm (6 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1638–1665
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.