Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem Haarlem 1562 - 1638

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Description

Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem
The Rest on the Flight into Eygpt
signed with monogram and dated centre left on the rock: CH 1603
oil on panel

Provenance

Vitale Bloch, Paris;
With S. Nijstad, The Hague, 1959;
With K. Meissner, Zurich, 1963;
With Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, 1967.

Literature

P. van Thiel, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem 1562 - 1638, Ghent 1999, p. 305, cat. no. 36, reproduced plate 184, listed as present whereabouts unknown.

Catalogue Note

This charming work is the third of six treatments of this subject, preceded by the The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe which is signed and dated 1589, and The Rest on the Flight into Eygpt in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, which is signed and dated 1590 (for these and the other listed versions see P. van Thiel, under Literature, Ghent 1999, pp. 305-6, cat. nos. 35-40, reproduced plates 45, 59, 184, 343, 344 and 345).