Dominique Vivant Denon, Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt
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Dominique Vivant Denon

Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt

1809

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
23.7 × 19.2 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-208361

Lithography was discovered in 1798 in Germany by Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), whose efforts to find an inexpensive method to reproduce the text of his plays accidentally led to a new and revolutionary way of printing. Although lithographs were almost immediately produced in Germany and England, the artists of France were the first to appreciate the aesthetic potentialities of this most flexible, responsive, and personal medium. In 1806, one of Napoleon's generals, Baron Lejeune, an amateur painter, was impressed by the technique while in Munich. Upon his return to Paris, he succeeded in intr…

Provenance

Williams Collection, 1940.1097

Registry history

  • 1809 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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