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Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Maker

(Artists)
1500-1571

Title

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Date of Production

1520 - 1530

Medium

oil on canvas (transferred from panel)

Dimensions

Height: 49 cm (canvas)
Width: 68.9 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1978.PG.35

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

This idyllic work shows the Holy Family resting under a tree during their flight from King Herod into Egypt. The Christ child tugs playfully at Joseph's beard while the donkey on which Mary travelled grazes in the background.
The popularity of this subject in the Renaissance seems to have been partly due to the opportunities it offered for the depiction of landscape at a time when nature had not yet emerged as an independent subject in Italian painting.

Provenance

Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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