# The Flight into Egypt

**Domenico Campagnola** (Italian, c. 1500–1564)  
c. 1540  
Pen and brown ink on dark cream laid paper, laid down on laid paper, with pen and ink and gold ruled lines  
Primary support: 18.7 × 25 cm (7 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 24.1 × 30.2 cm (9 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.874. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248304).

## About this work

Domenico Campagnola painted this in about 1540, aged 40. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of pen and brown ink on dark cream laid paper, laid down on laid paper, with pen and ink and gold ruled lines.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Pen and ink.** Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Domenico Campagnola](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/domenico-campagnola)

Italian, c. 1500–1564

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: Italy
- The artist was 40
- Real size: about 7 × 10 in (18 × 25 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 16th century
- Movement: [Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/renaissance)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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