Rest on the Flight to Egypt,

ca. 1604

Jacques Stella (1596-1657), Lyon and Paris, France, by 1634 [1];

Claudine Bouzonnet Stella (1636-1697), by inheritance from the above, until 1719.

Antoine Tambonneau;

Philippe II, Duc d’Orleans (1674-1723), Palais Royal, Paris, France, inherited from the above, until 1723;

Louis III, Duc d’Orleans (1703-1752), Palais Royal, Paris, France, by inheritance from the above, until 1752;

Louis-Philippe II, Duc d’Orleans (1747-1793), Palais Royal, Paris, France, by inheritance from the above, until 1785;

Louis-Philippe II, Duc d’Orleans (1747-1793), Palais Royal, Paris, France, by inheritance from the above, until 1792;

Viscount Edouard de Walckiers (1758-1837), Brussels, Belgium, acquired from the above in 1792.

Francis L. J. Laborde de Mereville (1761-1801), Paris, France, 1792;

Jeremiah Harman (1763-1844), London, England, on consignment from the above;

George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), First Duke of Sutherland, London, England and Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, and Dunrobin Castle, Highlands, Scotland, 1798-1833;

Consigned by or through the above at Bryan’s Picture Gallery, London, England, "The Orléans Collection", lot 21, 1833 [not sold].

George Granville Leveson Gower (1786-1861), Second Duke of Sutherland, by inheritance from the above, by 1833 until 1861;

George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), Third Duke of Sutherland, by inheritance from the above, by 1861 until 1892;

Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1913), Fourth Duke of Sutherland, Dunrobin Castle, Highlands, Scotland, UK, by inheritance from the above in 1892 until 1913;

Christie’s London, Sutherland Collection Sale, 1913, offered by the above and acquired by Agnew’s, London, England, lot 45, as A. Carracci’s The Repose in Egypt [2];

Charles Fairfax Murray, Florence acquired from the above, July 14, 1913 until 1919;

By descent to Contessa Mobili di S. Giovanni in 1919;

Mobili Sale, Galeria Geri, Milan, February 24, 1929.

Achillito Chiesa, sale, April 24, 1930, American Art Association, lot 26, as Annibale Carracci’s Rest in Egypt;

Acquired by Princeton University Art Museum at the above sale.

Notes

[1] Unless otherwise marked, internal curatorial records of the Princeton University Art Museum.

[2] This line and the following, Getty Provenance Index

• Du Bois de Saint-Gelais, Description des tableaux du Palais-Royal, avec la vie des peintres à la tête de leurs ouvrages..., (Paris: d'Houry, 1727)., p. 43
• Jacques Couché, Galerie du Palais royal, gravée d’après les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composemt: avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau, (Paris: Chez J. Couché, J. Bouilliard, 1786-1808).
• Michael Bryan and Sampson Low, A catalogue of the Orleans’ Italian pictures, which will be exhibited for sale by private contract, on Wednesday, the 26th of December, 1798, and following days, at Mr. Bryan’s gallery, no. 88, Pall Mall, (London: Sampson Low, 1798)., no. 21
• William Young Ottley and P.W. Tomkins, Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford’s collection of pictures, in London, arranged according to schools, and in chronological order, with remarks on each picture, (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818)., p. 54, no. 42
• WIlliam Buchanan, Memoirs of painting : with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution, (London: R. Ackerman, 1824)., no. 19
• Italian primitives and other oil paintings: part V of the Achillito Chiesa collection, (New York: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 1930)., no. 26
• Donald Posner, "A 'Rest on the flight to Egypt' after Annibale Carracci", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 29, no. 1 (1970): p. 3-7., fig 2., p. 5 (illus.)
• B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 99
• Seventeenth century landscapes: Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch: problems of authenticity in nineteenth and twentieth century art, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1973)., p. 53; no. 39 (illus.)
• Catherine R. Puglisi, "Albani at Princeton," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 48, no. 1 (1989): p. 18–27., p. 18, fig. 1; p. 25, fig. 8
• Catherine Puglisi, Francesco Albani, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999)., p. 142, cat. no. 57
• Stephane Loire, "Annibal Carrache a Paris au debut du XVIIe siecle: les tableaux du Regent," in Sybille Ebert-Schifferer and Silvia Ginzburg, eds., Nuova luce su Annibale Carracci (Actes du colloque de rome, Biblioteca Hertziana, 26-28 mars 2007), (Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2011)., p. 270-304; p. 290-291, cat. no. 15.
• Nature et Idéal: Le paysage à Rome 1600-1650, (Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011)., p. 134, 135 (illus.)
• Album de l'Exposition Nature et Idéal: Le paysage à Rome 1600-1650, (Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011)., p. 16 (illus.), p. 17-18