Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman sits in front of a vast landscape and holds a nude baby boy on her lap in this horizontal painting. The woman, Mary, sits with her knees angled to our left, but she looks at us from the corners of brown eyes. She has a delicate nose, smooth cheeks, a pointed chin, and her pink lips are closed. A few strands of blond hair escape from braids that overlap across the top of her head. She wears a rose-red dress over a translucent white undergarment, which is visible along the neckline and on the forearms. A cloth striped with azure and powder blue,…
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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

painter Maerten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574)

c. 1530

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 57.7 × 74.7 cm (22 11/16 × 29 7/16 in.) ; framed: 78.11 × 94.93 × 6.35 cm (30 3/4 × 37 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
North Netherlandish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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