DrawingsFrench18th century

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

18th century

Artists

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, called Lagrenée le jeuneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown and gray wash, black chalk, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

41.5 x 61.1 cm (16 5/16 x 24 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Galerie de Bayser et Strolin, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in memory of William A. Jackson, inv. no. 1965.12

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