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Joseph Telling Mary about their Flight into Egypt
Also titled Jozef vertelt Maria over hun vlucht naar Egypte
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, 1727–1804)
c. 1750 - c. 1753
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 183 mm x width 241 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In a dream an angel instructs Joseph to flee with his wife and child to Egypt. This is the first print in the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Picturesque ideas about the flight into Egypt) by Tiepolo’s eldest son. The Tiepolos usually pulled their etchings from copper plates wiped clean of excess ink. Here, however, some ink was left on the plate, creating an atmospheric, misty effect.
