The Rest on the Flight into Egypt Artist: Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598–1654)

1632–37

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

unframed: 29.53 × 34.45 cm (11 5/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Michael Hall

Accession Number

2016.17.1

Geography

Made in Rome, Italy

Culture

Italian, Rome

Period

17th century

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Collection of Michael Hall, Esq., New York (ca. 1970–2016);
Bibliography

  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2016.pdf (accessed December 1, 2016).
  • Jennifer Montagu, Icons or Portraits? Images of Jesus and Mary from the Collection of Michael Hall, ed. Ena Giurescu Heller, exh. cat. (New York: The Gallery at the American Bible Society, 2002), 104, no. 36, ill.
  • Jennifer Montagu, Algardi: L'altra faccia del barocco, exh. cat. (Rome: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, 1999), fig. 122.
  • Jennifer Montagu, Alessandro Algardi, II (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1985), 308, no. 4.C.9.
  • Smith College Museum of Art, Roman Baroque Sculpture: In Conjunction with the Five College Roman Baroque Festival, exh. cat. (Northampton, Mass.: Smith College Museum of Art, 1974), no. 16.
  • John Pope-Hennessy, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, II (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964), 388, 615, illus. III, fig. 643, 648.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art, sculpture

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