[The rest on the flight into Egypt] [art original].

Creator:

Van Artois, Pieter, 1600-1652, artist.

Copyright Date:

[first half 17th century]

Physical Description:

1 painting : oil on copper ; stretcher 48.5 x 71 cm, framed to 62.2 x 85.5 cm

Notes:

Title devised by curator.
Label on front of frame: Avont Pieter van 1600-1652.
Attributed by Horace Walpole to Van Artois.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: The Holy Family, in a Landscape, St. John is seen presenting fruit to the Infant Saviour, with Angels fondling a Lamb and gathering fruit and flowers, a highly finished and exquisite specimen of the art, the colours most brilliant and in fine preservation, on copper, by Van Artois, a pupil of Rubens. From Sir Robert Walpole's collection.
Collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Downing Street, Westminster; Horace Walpole, £10.15.0; 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 21, lot 57 bt G. M. Daubeney, Esq., £42; 2006 October 31, Sotheby's, Old Master Paintings, lot 47; bt Lowell Libson Ltd, London for Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Abstract:

Text from 1774 Description: East end: ...Holy family, with boy angels, in a landscape; by Van Artois, scholar of Rubens: from Sir Robert Walpole's collection. Formerly hung in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill.

Variant Titles:

Holy family, with boys and angels, in a landscape

Topics:

Biblical events.

Topics:

Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
Walpole, Robert,--Earl of Orford,--1676-1745--Ownership.

Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable

Genre:

Oil paintings--Netherlands--17th century.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

sh-000321
LWL Ptg. 178 Framed, in Conservation Lab

Orbis Record:

7779576

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr36970

Citation:

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16721023

PID:

digcoll:4695268