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After the painting by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722), The Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1706; National Gallery, London, NG3909, bought in 1924), in reverse. Mary lays the sleeping Christ child gently down upon a blanket. The child clutches flower petals, some of which have fallen onto the ground. Joseph is asleep on his hands in the background to the right beneath the shade of a tree, the lower branches of which can be seen at far right. Mountains in the distance.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
Title
The Rest on the Flight to Egypt
Date
1748
Accession number
P.14975-R
Acquisition method
Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879
Work type
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1RB England
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