The Flight into Egypt
1647–1648
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 29.5 × 20.6 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 29.8 × 20.6 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
Executed during Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's second visit to Rome, this classical composition illustrates the Biblical story in which the infant Christ commanded a palm tree to bow down so that the Virgin might pick its fruit during the Holy Family's flight into Egypt to escape Herod's soldiers.