Updated 14 April 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
| Date | 1619 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on copper |
| Size（cm） | 24.5 x 34.6 |
| Inscriptions | Signed and dated on the back (doubtful): ... ine Roman 1619 / G. fec. t |
| Credit Line | Purchased |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1994-0002 |
Wals was one of the most gifted successors to Adam Elsheimer, the German painter. The young Claude Lorrain studied with Wals in Naples, where Wals stayed for a while during the course of his widespread sojourns in Italy, and it is thought that Lorrain was greatly influenced by him. The subject of this painting is "Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt", but its purpose is to depict a landscape filled with poetic emotion. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
Provenance
Jack Kilgore, New York; purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Exhibition History
- 1998
- Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 15 September 1998 - 6 December 1998, cat. no. 5
Bibliography
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, Kofuku, Akira. New Acquisitions. pp. 12-14, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37, col. repr.
- 2018
- Kofuku, Akira. Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. [Tokyo], The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; The Western Art Foundation, 2018, pp. 60-61, no. 13, col. repr.