The Flight into Egypt

Artist Master of the Female Half-Lengths South Netherlandish, active 1500–1532

Datecirca 1520–1525

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions25 3/4 x 24 7/8 in. (65.4 x 63.2 cm)
Frame: 34 x 33 1/8 in. (86.4 x 84.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.52.9.105

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1530–1535. The Marchesi Gentili, Genoa, Italy, before ca. 1951; [Newhouse Galleries, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

Published ReferencesA. Morassi, Capolavori della pittura a Genova (Genoa: 1951), 75, 102, figs. 173-75. G. F. Hoogewerff, Het Landscap van Bosch tot Rubens (Antwerp: 1954), 25, fig. 13. W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 126 (as by Joachim Patinir), illus. (b-w). Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 26, illus. (b-w) 27. Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), nos. 18 and 19, illus. (b-w) 39, detail (b-w) 41. Ben F. Williams, "Le Musée de la Caroline du Nord à Raleigh," L'Oeil 155 (November 1967), 5, illus. 5, fig. 3. Robert A. Koch, Joachim Patinir (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968), cat. no. M. H-L. 1, illus. fig. 81. Isabel Combs Stuebe, "Landscape with the Flight into Egypt." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 10, no. 2 (December 1970), 3-13, illus. (color) cover, detail (b-w) 2. The Tarheel Banker 53, no. 6 (December 1974), illus. cover. Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 48, illus. (b-w) 49. Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 129. Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 110. Guy C. Bauman, and Walter A. Liedtke, selected by, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, Arnout Balis, Carl Van de Velde and Hans Vlieghe, eds. Flandria Extra Muros series (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 348, illus. fig. 321. Peter Hunfrey, "Two Moments in Dosso's Career as a Landscape Painter," in Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy, Luisa Ciammitti, Steven F. Ostrow, and Salvatore Settis, eds. (Los Angeles: The Getty Research Insititute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1998), 210, illus. (b-w) 212. Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Flight into Egypt, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 78, illus. (color). Ellen Konowitz, "The Master of the Female Half-Lengths Group, Eclecticism, and Novelty," Oud Holland 113, no. 1/2 (1999), 6, illus. (b-w). Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Flight into Egypt, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 170, illus. (color) 171, also mentioned and illus. (color) 19.

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection", October 1970, 26, illus. (b-w) 27. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 48, illus. (b-w) 49. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.

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