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Rest on the Flight into Egypt

early 1640s
(French, 1604–1682)
Measurements
Framed: 239 x 185 x 12 cm (94 1/8 x 72 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 208 x 152.5 cm (81 7/8 x 60 1/16 in.)
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Lorrain placed this Middle Eastern biblical event in the Roman countryside.

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One of the most influential landscape painters of the early modern era, Lorrain was a master of the “ideal landscape,” which combined lush foliage and a tranquil atmosphere with allusions to an idyllic, imaginary past. The intention was to create views more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. In the foreground of this soaring landscape, the Holy Family rests on a shady bank as kneeling angels offer fruit to the Christ child. Landscape paintings like this were much in demand among wealthy collectors throughout Europe, for whom these expansive idealized scenes represented a calm retreat from their hectic city lives.
A vertically oriented oil painting depicts a serene landscape. In the foreground, a woman in pink and blue garments holds a child, accompanied by a kneeling winged figure and a reclining man. A river with a small boat leads toward an arched stone bridge and a distant city. Massive, leafy trees and a lone palm frame a hazy, blue mountain on the horizon under a pale, clouded sky.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

early 1640s

Claude Lorrain

(French, 1604–1682)
France, 17th century

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