Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009217Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Also known as: Landscape with Rest on the Flight into Egypt
About the Artwork
One of the most influential landscape painters of the early modern era, Lorrain was a master of the “ideal landscape,” which combined lush foliage and a tranquil atmosphere with allusions to an idyllic, imaginary past. The intention was to create views more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. In the foreground of this soaring landscape, the Holy Family rests on a shady bank as kneeling angels offer fruit to the Christ child. Landscape paintings like this were much in demand among wealthy collectors throughout Europe, for whom these expansive idealized scenes represented a calm retreat from their hectic city lives.
Provenance
Count Francesco Crescenzi or Giovanni Battista Crescenzi (1577-1660?), Spanish Marquess de la Torre; Sir William Lowther (1727-1753), third and last Baronet of Marske (Holker Hall, Lancashire); by inheritance to Lord George Augustus Cavendish (died 1794), Holker Hall, Lancashire; by inheritance to William Cavendish (1808-1891), seventh Duke of Devonshire and second Earl of Burlington; Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish (1871-1946) sale, Christie's, London, December 12, 1930, no. 37, illus.; Richard Edward Osborne Cavendish, Esq., Holker Hall, Lancashire; sold, Christie's, London, April 1, 1960, no. 87, illus., to Rudolf Heinemann, New York; sold the the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
Exhibition history
Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). Art in Italy, 1600-1700. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 6-May 9, 1965). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Claude Lorrain and the Ideal Landscape. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (organizer) (September 15-December 6, 1998).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain (French, 1604–1682)
- Date
- early 1640s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 239 x 185 x 12 cm (94 1/8 x 72 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 208 x 152.5 cm (81 7/8 x 60 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1962.151
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