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The Flight into Egypt
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The Flight into Egypt
oil on copper
10½ x 16 in. (26.6 x 40.5 cm.)
in an early 19th Century acanthus leaf composition frame
                                        
                                    The Flight into Egypt
oil on copper
10½ x 16 in. (26.6 x 40.5 cm.)
in an early 19th Century acanthus leaf composition frame
Provenance
                                        
                                            Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, Marqués de Eliche, Duque de Montoro and Conde-Duque de Olivares, 8th Marqäes del Carpio, Viceroy of Naples (1629-1687), Palazzo Reale, Naples, by whom bequeathed (see lit.) to his daughter
Catalina de Haro Guzmán y Enríquez, Marquesa de Eliche, Duquesa de Montoro, Condesa-Duquesa de Olivares, 8th Marquesa del Carpio (b. 1672), wife of the future 10th Duque de Alba.
                                        
                                    Catalina de Haro Guzmán y Enríquez, Marquesa de Eliche, Duquesa de Montoro, Condesa-Duquesa de Olivares, 8th Marquesa del Carpio (b. 1672), wife of the future 10th Duque de Alba.
Literature
                                        
                                            Inventario de los Bienes q. quedaron de Dn Gaspar de Haro, Marques del Carpio, hecho en Napoles, 1687 (Madrid, Archivio Casa de Alba, Palacio de Liria, Madrid), p. 11, item no. 154a, inv. no. 1350 (Haro y Guzmán collector's mark and inv. no. on the reverse of the painting), one of two, 'Due Quadri compagni di p.mi 2. et 1. con Cornice nera, et intagli dorati con Paesi in uno La fuga d'Egitto in altro La Torre di Babilonia.' 
  
                                        
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