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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Vienna)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Vienna)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date ca. 1595
Dimensions 25 x 19 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Collaborators Hans Rottenhammer
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #238
Ertz 1979, #19a
Location Vienna, Austria
Collection Kunsthistorisches Museum
Accession numbers inv. #642
Tags Resting, Rottenhammer, Forest, Putti, Holy family, New Testament
External resources Kunsthistorisches Museum
Ertz 1979, cat. #19a, fig. 610, p. 503
Wied in Essen 1997
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #238
Borggrefe in Lemgo/Prague 2008, cat. #14, pp.107-109
Como/Tel Aviv 2012, #13, p.208
Essen 1997, #188
Lemgo/Prague 2008, #14
Como/Tel Aviv 2012, #13
1659 Vienna Collection of Leopold Wilhelm, inv. #447
18th century to 19th century Christian von Mechel 178, inv. #24 (as "Vinckenboons")
19th century Eduard von Engerth 1362 (as "D. Vinck-Boons and Rottenhammer")
E.A. Honig
March 2, 2013

Copy formerly art market London (Valls Gallery, 1976). Weak copy sold Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, May 21, 1951, #147 (copper, 34 x 26).

A version of Rottenhammer's contribution here was engraved by Crispijn de Passe.