Claude Lorrain, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Fund, 1962.151 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Claude Lorrain

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

early 1640s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
208 × 152.5 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-109570

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 retrea…

Provenance

Fund, 1962.151

Registry history

  • early 1640s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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