Rest on the Flight into Egypt

between 1764 and 1765

Corrado Giaquinto Italian, 1703-1766

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European: Grand Tour of Italy-Florence, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Artwork Date between 1764 and 1765

Artist Corrado Giaquinto

Life Dates 1703-1766

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 113 × 71 1/8 inches (287 × 180.7 cm) Framed: 118 9/16 × 76 5/8 × 2 3/8 inches (301.1 × 194.6 × 6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 77.73

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Provenance

1766- before 1817, Church of S. Luigi di Palazzo (Napes, Italy);
ca. 1833, Lord Berwick (Redrice, Hampshire, England);
by 1877, Greely Stevenson Curtis (Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
by descent to Harriet Appleton Curtis (Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
November 28, 1975, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction H.A. Curtis, lot 48;
1977, (P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London, England);
1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sigismondo, G. Descrizione della Città di Napoli, 2 vols. Naples, 1788, vol 1, p. 26; vol. 2, pp. 329-333 [referred to as "St. Joseph Adoring the Infant Jesus"].

Napoli-Signorelli, P. "Gli artisti napoletani della 2a metà del sec. XVIII." Napoli nobilissima, n.s. 2 (1921): p. 149.

d'Orsi, M. Corrado Giaquinto. Rome, 1958, pp. 122, 147, 149, cat. 314 (fig. 162).

Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1970, p. 226, cited under cat. 95 (fig. 227) [as a "Holy Family"].

Rosenfeld, M.N. "Problems of Iconography in Italian Painting." Apollo 103 (May 1976): p. 389.

Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5: Annual Report (1978): pp. 275-276 (fig. 11).

Civiltà del Settecento a Napoli, vol. 1. Exh. cat., Museo di Capodimonte. Naples, 1979, pp. 300-302; p. 300 (fig. 163d).

Cummings, F., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 149, cat. 122 (ill.).

Cioffi, I. "Corrado Giaquinto's 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt.'" Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 1: Annual Report (1980): pp. 5-12 (ill.).

The Golden Age Of Naples: Art and Civilization Under The Bourbons 1734-1805. Exh. cat., DIA and Art Institute of Chicago. Detroit and Chicago, 1981, pp. 108, 115-116, cat. 25(d) (ill.).

A Taste for Angels, Neapolitan Painting in North America 1650-1750. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 1987, pp. 69, 298.

Spinosa, N. Pittura Napoletana del Settecento, vol. 2. 1987, p. 149, no. 246, p. 351 (fig. 334).

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 11, 94-97, cat. no. 30.

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 101.

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Corrado Giaquinto, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, between 1764 and 1765, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 77.73.