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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Germany)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Germany)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date 1604
Dimensions 52.5 x 66.5 cm
Support Panel
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGH(EL) 16(0)4
Our attribution Produced Outside Jan Brueghel's Studio
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #244
Location/Most Recent Sale Germany, Private Collection, 2007
Tags Resting, Van Balen, Forest, Mountain, Christ, Holy family, New Testament, Virgin Mary
Werche 2004, cat. #E11 as rejected
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #244
Since 18th century Saxony Royal Collection of Saxony
Until 1945 Saxony Saxony-Meiningen Family
2001 to 2004 Saxony Returned through the trustees of the ducal houses of Saxony-Meiningen (as "Govaerts")
Nov 14 2007 Amsterdam Sale, Christie's, Lot #124 (as "Circle Jan II and H. van Balen")
E.A. Honig
July 31, 2012

This work does not appear in the 1979 Ertz catalogue nor the Honig Database. Plainly not by Jan Brueghel. There are futher copies and variants, but those are not by Jan either.