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A rest on the flight into Egypt. Landscape with Joseph leading the ass to a river at centre right and two angels seated next to the Virgin at left, who is about to wrap the nude Christ Child in a shawl; from a series of four landscapes with the Holy Family on their Flight into Egypt
Etching
Signed beneath the print at left.
Print made by: Herman van Swanevelt
Reference:
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (8)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (II.307.99)
A good impression on laid paper with full plate border and good margins.
210x 273 mm on plate" border.
Good condition.
Herman van Swanevelt (1600-1655) - Dutch School
Painter/etcher als called Herman d'Italy or Il Erimita. Born in the Netherlands, he first went to Paris and then to Rome where he was the pupil of Claude le Lorrain. Back in Paris he worked in the style of his famous master and some of his works where attributed first to Claude Lorrain or Nicolas Poussin. 63397739
