Jan van Scorel
The rest on the flight into Egypt
c. 153057.8 x 74.9 cm
Oil on wood
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Oliver Hand, Martha Wolff, Early Netherlandish painting, Washington; New York, 1986, pp. 110-117 (as Maerten van Heemskerck)
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 189
Provenance
Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (died 1862)
his grandson, Heinrich Vieweg, Braunschweig (died 1890)
his heirs
sale, Berlin, Lepke's, 18 March 1930, nr. 49, as by Jan van Scorel
Antonio von Riedemann, Meggen, Switzerland
with Frederick Mont, New York
purchased 30 January 1952 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1961 to NGA
Other works by Jan van Scorel
Tower of Babel
Agatha van Schoonhoven
1529
1529
Lucretia
Portrait of a Man
Mary Magdalene
c. 1530
c. 1530