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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1501–1520) by Gerard David. Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an oil-on-panel painting executed ca. 1501–1520 by the Early Netherlandish painter Gerard David. It was probably originally commissioned for the Convent of Our Lady of Paradise in Évora and is now in the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon. [1]
It can be compared with other works by David which depict the same subject, including paintings located in Madrid, Washington and New York and a Virgin and Child in Rotterdam. The Flight into Egypt derives from the Gospel of Matthew (II.13-18), though it does not mention a rest, which derives from apocryphal accounts. It was a popular theme for ...
The Flight into Egypt derives from the Gospel of Matthew (II.13-18), though it does not mention a rest, which derives from apocryphal accounts. It was a popular theme for painters in many periods. David painted it on several occasions using different compositions, [2] possibly not as the result of commissions but simply painted to put on the ...
Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room cottage, [2] at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the fourth son of Fenwick Martin, a one-time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a dispute over wages the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed instead under Boniface Musso, an Italian ...
Washington version (c. 1510) The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an oil painting of around 1510 by the Flemish painter Gerard David now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [1] It can be compared with other works on the same theme by the same painter in New York, Madrid and Antwerp and a Virgin and Child in Rotterdam.
The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, and now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. The series depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea.
Rest on the Flight into Egypt; The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: Artist: Gerard David Year: c. 1515: Medium: Oil paint, panel: Movement: Early Netherlandish painting Dimensions: 50.8 cm (20.0 in) × 43.2 cm (17.0 in) Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art: Accession No. 49.7.21 Identifiers: RKDimages ID: 43968 The Met object ID: 436101
The David and Goliath in the Prado was painted in the early part of the artist's career, while he was a member of the household of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte.It shows the Biblical David as a young boy (in accordance with the Bible story) fastening the head of the champion of the Philistines, the giant Goliath, by the hair.