Art, literature & history
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1759
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 39.2 × 36 cm (15 7/16 × 14 3/16 in.) sheet: 43 × 38.3 cm (16 15/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2016.81.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre. Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre; 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:Jean-Baptiste-Marie_Pierre,_Rest_on_the_Flight_into_Egypt,_1759,_NGA_206512.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Rest on the Flight into Egypt — Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre. 1759.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 39.2 × 36 cm (15 7/16 × 14 3/16 in.) sheet: 43 × 38.3 cm (16 15/16 × 15 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.81.2. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Katharine Shepard Fund.
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.