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The Flight into Egypt

Vittore Carpaccio (1465–1526) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q5581 q:it:Vittore Carpaccio Vittore Carpaccio: The Flight into Egypt Title The Flight into Egypt Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata Depicted people

   Child Jesus Edit this at Wikidata
   Virgin Mary

Date circa 1515 Medium oil on panel Dimensions Height: 72 cm (28.3 in); Width: 111 cm (43.7 in) Collection National Gallery of Art Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q214867 Current location West Main Floor Gallery 10 Accession number 1937.1.28 Object history Edward Solly [1776-1844], Berlin; purchased 1821 for the Königliche Museen (painting collection installed 1904 in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum), Berlin; sold 1924 to (Charles Albert de Burlet, Berlin). (Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1940], Florence and Rome).[1] (Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London). acquired 1927 by Otto H. Kahn [1867-1934], New York. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 26 April 1937 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA.

llis K. Waterhouse, "Review of Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979," The Burlington Magazine 122 (September 1980): 637, states that the painting is "widely believed to have been painted almost entirely by Luigi Grassi." However, conservation examination and treatment by the NGA that was concluded in 1995 indicates that the original paint layer is well preserved.

   Mellon Trust purchase date is according to Mellon collection files in NGA curatorial records and David Finley's notebook (donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, now in the Gallery Archives).

Credit line Andrew W. Mellon Collection References The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Source/Photographer Own work

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