Art, literature & history
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
c. 1515/1519
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 9.5 x 4.7 cm (3 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.393
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albrecht Altdorfer. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Albrecht Altdorfer; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Altdorfer,_The_Rest_on_the_Flight_into_Egypt,_c._1515-1519,_NGA_3605.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt — Albrecht Altdorfer. c. 1515/1519.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 9.5 x 4.7 cm (3 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.393. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.