The Flight into Egypt, 15th century

  • German
  • Martin Schongauer, German, 1450-1491

Pen and brown ink on discolored laid paper, coated on verso with charcoal or black chalk

  • Sheet: 10 1/8 × 7 1/8 inches (25.7 × 18.1 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR259

March 1889, Soethby's (New York, New York, USA)

1889-1909, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, p. 30, no. 8 (ill.).

German; after Martin Schongauer, The Flight into Egypt, 15th century, pen and brown ink on discolored laid paper, coated on verso with charcoal or black chalk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR259.