Art, literature & history
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1656/69
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 16.2 × 17.5 cm (6 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 17.8 cm (6 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2021.583
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Elisabetta Sirani. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1656/69. Inventory 2021.583. Elisabetta Sirani; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/262719. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Existing creator authority Q271475 explicitly identifies Chicago artist 36704 and independently matching NGA constituent 3066. Local biography years remain 1638 / 1665; Chicago numeric person fields are 1638 / 1665, while its object display is 'Elisabetta Sirani\nItalian, 1638-1665'. NGA date wording 'Italian, 1638 - 1665' remains separate source evidence. No biography field or creator link is rewritten. The exact existing physical object, inventory, date interval and unique native artist role were individually reviewed. Individual physical-object date review retains the museum's 1656/69 and exact catalogue interval 1656–1669, despite the creator's 1665 death. This particular native sheet is wholly before 1970; neither its exact production year nor posthumous status is inferred.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt — Elisabetta Sirani. 1656/69.
Medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Plate: 16.2 × 17.5 cm (6 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 17.8 cm (6 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.