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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (David, Washington)

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22: 363: 78:. It was a popular theme for painters in many periods. David painted it on several occasions using different compositions, possibly not as the result of commissions but simply painted to put on the open market. Many of them are near-identical but for a few small details. However, in all of them David focuses attention on the seated Virgin Mary breastfeeding the Christ Child, enthroned in front of a deep forest landscape background. In the far background there is usually a scene related to either the rest or to the journey to Egypt. 56: 48: 60: 81:
It has an entirely different composition to the Madrid, New York and Antwerp versions and shows the Virgin feeding the Christ Child with a bunch of grapes, a symbol of the
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shaking a chestnut tree to bring down nuts. The bluish landscape is more broadly painted than in the Prado, Metropolitan and Antwerp examples.
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It can be compared with other works on the same theme by the same painter in
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is an oil painting of around 1510 by the Flemish painter
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This article about a sixteenth-century painting is a
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Gerard David
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
New York
Madrid
Antwerp
Virgin and Child
Flight into Egypt
Gospel of Matthew
apocryphal accounts
Eucharist
Joseph
"El Descanso… del Museo del Prado"
"David, Rest on the Flight into Egypt"
"David, Rest on the Flight into Egypt"
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Gerard David
Adoration of the Shepherds
Triptych of the Sedano family
The Judgement of Cambyses
The Line of Saint Anne
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Lisbon)
The Baptism of Christ
Cervara Altarpiece
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Washington, D.C.)
Virgin and Child with Four Angels

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