The Flight into Egypt
Artist
Nicolás Rodriguez Juarez
(Mexican, 1667 - 1734)
Date1713
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 76 × 46 1/2 inches (193.04 × 118.11 cm)
Credit LineGift of Steve Six in memory of Virginia Jennings Nadeau
Object number2021.14.2
SignedOn lower right:
“Nicolaus Rodriguez Xu…z / Clexicus
Presca[?]i fac anno 1713”
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionThe Holy Family (the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and Christ Child) pause in a rural landscape with a palm tree above them. The Virgin and Christ Child are astride a donkey, while St. Joseph is on foot.Published ReferencesManuel Toussaint, Colonial Art in Mexico, 2nd. ed., trans. Elizabeth Wilder Weismann (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967): 241–243.
Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy, et. al. "Tesoros de México en España," Artes de México, nueva epoca, no. 22 (Winter 1993–1994): 84-104.
Marcus Burke, Treasures of Mexican Colonial Painting: The Davenport Museum of Art Collection (Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1998): 46–47.
Donna Pierce, et. al. Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521–1821 (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2004): 155–157.
Ilona Katzew, et. al., Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790/Pinxit Mexici (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017): 69–71 and passim.
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18th century
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