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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (David, New York)

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36: 218:. 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. 131: 98: 53: 196: 192: 200: 480: 378: 403: 412: 353: 35: 188: 485: 203:
in Rotterdam. The composition is near-identical to the Madrid and Washington examples, though the New York one shows an apple branch instead of a basket.
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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 1515 by the Flemish painter
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50.8 cm (20.0 in) × 43.2 cm (17.0 in)
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Gerard David
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Oil paint
panel
Movement
Early Netherlandish painting
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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RKDimages ID: 43968
The Met object ID: 436101
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Gerard David
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Madrid
Washington
Antwerp
Virgin and Child
Flight into Egypt
Gospel of Matthew
apocryphal accounts
"El Descanso… del Museo del Prado"
"David, Rest on the Flight into Egypt"
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Gerard David
Adoration of the Shepherds
Triptych of the Sedano family

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