The Flight into Egypt
oil on canvas
32 x 48.5cm
Footnote
The present work is a version of the composition by Tempesta now at Isola Bella (see M. Rothliesberger, Cavalier Pietro Tempesta and His Time, Delaware, 1970, cat. no. 237).
Estimate: | £1,000 - £1,500 |
Condition report
Canvas relined; craquelure throughout the paint surface and a later varnish. Ultraviolet light reveals traces of retouching to the sky upper left, the trees upper right and some further to the foreground.