The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt, ca. 1760

Title

The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt

Draughtsman

• Gaspare Diziani

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Late Baroque
• rococo

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Black-brown ink and brush in grey-brown over red chalk on ribbed laid paper

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• red chalk
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• red chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Venetian

Production Reason

• figure study
• movement study
• composition study

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): Unbek. Italiener 18. Jh. / (in d. Art der Tiepolo); darunter: K 40; (mit der Feder in Braun): 4f [?]

Watermark

• Oval

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1908

Genre

• historical narration
• Biblical portrayal

Main Motif

• Life of the Virgin
• Mary
• Christ Child
• Joseph of Nazareth
• Holy Family
• angel
• family
• woman
• child
• man
• group of people
• animal
• bridge

Persons Shown

• Mary
• Christ Child
• Joseph of Nazareth
• Holy Family

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Herod I (king of Judea)
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
• Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
• Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Neues Testament, Matthäus 2,13-14
• Apokryphen, Pseudo-Matthäusevangelium, 17,2-22,1

Primary

• 73B641 the flight into Egypt: Mary, Joseph, the child (and sometimes others) on their way; Mary usually riding on an ass
• 11G angels

Secondary

• 46C112 bridge

Historic Attribution

• Italian draughtsman