Rest on the Flight to Egypt
Simone Cantarini
1632–1648
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 8 × 12.3 cm (3 3/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
The influential Bolognese painter and etcher Simone Cantarini specialized in intimate religious subjects. The distinctive octagonal shape of his tender, domestic vignette of Mary and Jesus resting during their Egyptian exodus proved popular and was copied by his contemporaries.
