After Federico Barocci (ca. 1535 - 1612)

THE REST ON THE RETURN FROM EGYPT, ca. 1611. Bartsch XII, 36.11. Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks, dark brown and raw umber, 349 X 280 mm (13 3/4 x 11") trimmed along borderline. Very fine impression with fewer flaws than are often seen on these woodcuts: soft diagonal folds across upper left and lower right corners, with some related rubbing, repaired tear into upper left edge, traces of old mount and glue on verso, faint signs on verso of old horizontal fold, reinforced at edges on verso.

According to Louise Richards (E. Pillsbury and L.S. Richards: The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci, Yale University Art Gallery, 1978, no. 80) in an inventory taken of Barocci's studio after his death there was a description of a chiaroscuro woodcut of the Flight into Egypt, which is probably this subject. It reproduces a composition which the artist himself used in two works, and which he allowed to be engraved by Rafaello Schiaminossi in 1612. It is possible that the artist provided the woodcutter a finished drawing to serve as a guide. This print provides almost the only example of Barocci's interest in the prints made by others after his own works.

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