The holy family resting under a palm tree during the flight into Egypt. Etching after C. Saraceni.
- Saraceni, Carlo, 1580?-1620.
- Reference:
- 22287i
- Pictures
About this work
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
Contributors
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.
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
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)
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
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores