- Museum number
- 1854,0628.4
- Description
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt; the Virgin seated with the Child in her arms leaning out, St Joseph standing at right, a donkey resting at left
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, on grey prepared paper
- Production date
- 1543-1588
- Dimensions
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Height: 316 millimetres
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Width: 239 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Created as an independent work, this probably dates from the late 1560s. The composition is based on a Veronese drawing in Cleveland. The present drawing probably served as a model for Veronese's painting of the subject, now in Ottawa, although there are a number of differences (Pignatti, II, fig. 689). A more faithful painted version of the drawing by a follower of Veronese is in the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (Pignatti, II, fig. 721). Van Dyck made a copy of the present drawing, see 1957,1214.207.2. Another copy with an old attribution to Erasmus Quellinus but offered as Hans Rottenhammer was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 2019, lot 9.
Lit.: G. Waagen, 'Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Supplement', London, 1857, pp. 33; D. von Hadeln, 'Venezianische Zeichnungen der Spätrenaissance', Berlin, 1926, p. 58; G. Fiocco, 'Paolo Veronese: 1528 - 1588', Bologna, 1928, p. 208; H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries', New York, 1944, no. 2090, p. 345; T. Pignatti, 'Veronese', Venice, 1976, I, under no. 322, II, fig. 690; N. Turner and M. Royalton Kisch, in exhib. cat., Adelaide and Melbourne, 'Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Century of Genius', 1980, no. 67; M. Koshikawa and H. Kurtita, in exhib. cat., Tokyo and Nagoya, 'Italian 16th and 17th Century Drawings', 1996, no 51
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1960, London, Royal Academy, 'Italian Art and Britain', No. 564
1977 May-Jun, Hermitage, 'Italian Renaissance', no. 14
1977 Jul-Aug, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 'Italian Renaissance', no. 14
1980, Adelaide and Melbourne, no. 67
1995 Jan-Mar, Southampton Art Gallery, 'Drawing the Line', no. 24
1995 Mar-Apr, Manchester Art Gallery, 'Drawing the Line', no. 24
1996 Feb-Apr, Tokyo, Nat Mus Western Art, Italian Drawings/BM, no. 51
1996 Apr-May, Nagoya, Aichi Pref Mus of Art, Italian Drawings/BM, no. 51
2009 May-Sep, Ottawa, NG of Canada, The Petrobelli Altarpiece
2014, Jul-Oct, Verona, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, 'Paolo Veronese'
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0628.4
