The Adoration of the Magi and the Flight into Egypt
Antoine-François Callet
(French, 1741–1823)
about 1777
Medium/TechniqueBlack and red chalk with gray and red wash, heightened with white, within brown ink framing lines
DimensionsSheet: 51 x 38.6 cm (20 1/16 x 15 3/16 in.)
Framed: 75 x 62 cm (29 1/2 x 24 7/16 in.)
Framed: 75 x 62 cm (29 1/2 x 24 7/16 in.)
Credit LineFrank B. Bemis Fund
Accession number2012.116
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ProvenanceSold by Charles Callet (the son of the artist) to Delaurier (dealer), Paris; March, 1862, sold by Delaurier to Marquis Philippe de Chennevières (b. 1820 –d. 1899), Paris; April 4-7, 1900, posthumous Chennevières sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, part of lot 58, sold for 27 francs to Baron Roger Portalis (d. 1912), Paris (Lugt 2232); February 2-3 1911, Portalis sale, Hôtel Drouot, part of lot 16, sold for 62 francs. Jacques Petit-Hory (b. 1929 – d. 1992), Paris. January 10, 1995, anonymous (“various properties”) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 195. British Rail Pension Fund. 1996, with Brame et Lorenceau, Paris; Kate de Rothschild, London; and Didier Aaron, New York. Private collection, New York; consigned by this private collection to W. M. Brady and Co., New York; 2012, sold by Brady to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2012)
