The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

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Title	The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Material and technique	Red chalk, heightened with white, on grey paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 234 mm Width 212 mm
Artists	Draughtsman: Camillo Procaccini Previously attributed: Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
Accession number	I 266 recto (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1590-1593
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance	Attilio Simonetti (1843-1925), Galleria Simonetti, Rome (L.2288bis); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1928 from the Simonetti heir via art dealer Nicolaas Beets (Correggio); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions	Washington/Parma 1984, no. 115; Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 1); Rotterdam 2017 (?)
Internal exhibitions	De Collectie Twee - wissel I, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) Guercino en de Bolognese School (2017)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature	Ward Neilson 1979, p. 164, under no. 69, fig. 104 (c. 1599-1602); Washington/Parma 1984, no. 115, ill.
Material	Red chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Surya Stemerding

This drawing of the Holy Family pausing on the flight to Egypt was inventoried in 1928 as a Correggio (c.1489-1534) on the evidence of an annotation on the verso, but later, in 1962, Philip Pouncey reassigned it to Camillo Procaccini.^[1]According to Ward Neilson (1979) it is very closely related in style to a pen drawing of the same subject by Procaccini in Paris and the print based on it, both of which are datable between 1587 and 1593.^[2]Neilson sees a close resemblance in the pose and form of the Christ Child, in the heads of Mary and Joseph, and in the draperies. Between 1580 and 1600 Procaccini made a series of prints of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, but the Rotterdam drawing has no direct relationship with those prints.[3]

The Rotterdam sheet is not only close to the Paris drawing in style but also to other drawings by the artist. It is very skilfully executed in red chalk, with pronounced diagonal hatching and forceful shaded passages.

Judging by the verso the sheet is a fragment of what was originally a much larger piece of paper. The verso has a red chalk drawing of a head with portions of the chin and neck visible at lower right.

Footnotes

^[1]Note written on his visit to the museum on 18 May 1962, shared with the museum by Françoise Devaux in November 2019, also annotated on the passe-partout and the inventory card. On the passe-partout there is also an attribution to Barocci by ‘O.B.’ (possibly Otto Benesch).

^[2]Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 602 recto; Bartsch XVIII,1 & 2. The left half of the scene in the print bears a striking resemblance to a painting on copper that is attributed to Procaccini, now in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, inv. WAS 1956.13.

^[3]Rancate 2007, pp. 82-83, 198-204.

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