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Rest on the Flight into Egypt

early 1640s

Claude Lorrain

(French, 1604–1682)
Culture
France, 17th century
Medium
oil on canvas
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.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1962.151
Public Domain
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Location
212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
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Lorrain placed this Middle Eastern biblical event in the Roman countryside.

Description

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.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

early 1640s

Claude Lorrain

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

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