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Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Tivoli Temple (Germany)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Tivoli Temple (Germany)

Object type Painting
Genre Religious
Date 1595
Dimensions 26 x 35.5 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature BRUEGHEL 1595
Collaborators Hans Rottenhammer
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #236
Ertz 1979, #10
Location/Most Recent Sale Germany, Private Collection
Tags Resting, House, Rottenhammer, Forest, Mountain, Putti, Holy family, New Testament
Ertz 1979, cat. #10, fig. 2, p. 24, 26, 84, 90, 92, 93, 114, 124, 176, 192, 376, 501, 503, 504
Essen 1997, #28
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #236
Ruby in Munich 2013, p. 38, Fig. 29
Roelandt Savery en zijn omgeving (Cologne/Utrecht, 1985/6), #74
Before 1658 Verona Possibly Muselli Collection (this or another version)
Dec 6 1946 London Sale, Christie's, Lot #72 (to Hallsborough)
1947 London Collection of M.Q. Morris
Before 1978 London Sale, Duits, Ltd. to Germany
E.A. Honig
November 2, 2013

A weak version of this was on the art market in Vienna (Dorotheum 1972, copper, 23.5 x 31); it repeats the Hague painting (see related works). It was sold at Sotheby's London April 11, 1990 #38 as Jan Brueghel II and Van Balen.

There is a letter at the Rubenianum from L. Burchard about this painting, dated January 6, 1947. He thinks it is identical to a painting described by Carlo Ridolfi in his Maraviglie dell' Arte (Venice 1648, II, p. 76). Ridolfi says it is by Rottenhammer, on copper, and that he has seen it in Verona in the collection of somebody called Muselli. "... in oltre un inventione della Virgine, la quale passanda nell' Egitto, dede in una boscaglia & allata di pargoletto Giesu, a cui un Angelo porge un canestrino di fiori.." Burchard notes that there is no basket in this painting but says that Ridolfi's descriptions are sometimes wrong.

An precise replication of a drawing by Bril now in the Louvre.