REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1647
Oil on panel, 34 x 48 cm
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Catalogue number: Bredius 576.

This painting is Rembrandt's only night scene. It is an adaptation of a famous painting by Adam Elsheimer that circulated in the Netherlands during Rembrandt's youth, and that was reproduced in an engraving by the Utrecht artist Hendrick Goudt in 1613.




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