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The Flight into Egypt

Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822–1885)
1871–80

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 28.9 x 22.7 cm (11 3/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 49.2 x 32 cm (19 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery
Accession NumberM7994
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Van Gelder 138 ii/ii (etching); Préaud 54
Signed In plate at bottom edge of light area to left of donkey "RodoPhe BresDin 1871"; on pot to left of Joseph "Bresdin 1781 [sic] / BR"
InscriptionsGraphite verso: "2 1/2"
ProvenanceBy 1891, Samuel Putnam Avery (b. 1822 - d. 1904, see Lugt 41), New York; 1891, gift of S. P. Avery to the MFA. (Accession date: December 1, 1891)