The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1587–90
(Italian, 1546–1629)
Sheet: 22 x 27 cm (8 11/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: TIB 39, comm. pt. 2, 3904.002
Location: Not on view
Description
Camillo Procaccini used etching, a relatively new medium at the time, to create what were considered “printed drawings,” prints with the effect of spontaneous drawings, made with delicate and fluid lines on the etching plate. Here, he filled almost every inch of the composition with moving foliage, practically fusing nature with Mary, Joseph, and the Christ child, who have stopped on their flight from King Herod’s troops sent to kill Christ. Nature functions less as a container of symbols and more as a vibrant life force meant to evoke the viewer’s pious emotion.- ?–2015(Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, NY), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHMarch 5, 2015–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.26