The holy family resting under a palm tree during the flight into Egypt. Etching after C. Saraceni.

  • Saraceni, Carlo, 1580?-1620.
Reference:
22287i
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Description

Bible. N.T. Matthew 2.12-15. The angels on the right seem to be reading from a folded sheet of paper which appears to bear musical staves. Three angels are peering at it. An angel above them draws down the palm tree which furnished the holy family with dates. This latter episode is described in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and was interpreted in the middle ages as a depiction of paradise regained. Weeds, however, are prominent at the bottom of the picture

Physical description

1 print : etching

Lettering

Carolus Saracenus invent. Two monograms at the Virgin's foot: "HSP" and "ARB". Lettering in pen on mount: "Joseph Ribera 1593"

Edition

State with Ribera monograms.

Creator/production credits

The monograms of Jusepe de Ribera may have been applied to this state of the print by the publisher, Franciscus van Wyngaerde. They are absent from another state of the print (see this catalogue, record no. 46437)

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg 1920-1922, vol. 20, p. 51, attributed to Ribera as a "pièce douteuse", unnumbered
A. Ottani Cavina, Carlo Saraceni, Milan 1968, p. 101 and fig. 33

Reference

Wellcome Collection 22287i

Reproduction note

After a composition by Carlo Saraceni, of which an autograph version dated 1606 is in the Eremo dei Camaldolesi in Frascati (Ottani Cavina p. 101); engraved in reverse to the painting

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