Luca Giordano

Provenance

Philip V, King of Spain, until 1701, given to Noailles
Adrien Maurice, duc de Noailles, Paris (from 1701-17)
Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, until 1789
his estate sale, Christie's, London, January 9, 1789, nr. 4, to Ad[ . . . ] ?for "Lord Heytesbury"
?Sir William Pierce Ashe à Court, 1st Baronet, Heytesbury (from 1789)
by descent to Lady Margaret Anna Heytesbury, Heytesbury House, Wiltshire, until d. 1920
her estate, 1920-26
her estate sale, Hampton & Sons and Edens, Heytesbury House, April 30, 1926, nr. 1345
Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky, Kuchelna, Prussian Silesia and Berlin
Paul Bottenwieser, Berlin (in 1927)
with Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, sold to Kleinberger
with Kleinberger, New York, until 1935, sold to Landon
Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Landon, Baltimore and New York (1935-61)

Iconclass

73B641 The flight into Egypt: Mary, Joseph, the child (and sometimes others) on their way; Mary usually riding on an ass

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 61.50

Other works by Luca Giordano

The Defeat of Sisara

Vulcan's Forge

Cato Tearing Out His Entrails
c. 1660

Jacob's Dream

Venus at Vulcan's Forge