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Rest on the Flight to Egypt
Simone Cantarini1630/48
- Attribution
- Simone Cantarini Italian, 1612-1648
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- 8 × 12.3 cm (3 3/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Hannan Fund
CATALOGUE RECORD
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The influential Bolognese painter and etcher Simone Cantarini specialized in intimate religious subjects. The distinctive octagonal shape of his tender, domestic vignette of Mary and Jesus resting during their Egyptian exodus proved popular and was copied by his contemporaries.
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