拍品专文
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is among the most common themes in Cornelis van Poelenburgh's oeuvre, with ten autograph treatments of the subject and several further copies. Although many of the scenes are situated in Italianate landscapes, only one is considered to have been completed during the artist's time in Italy, now in the Castello Sforzesco, Museo d'Arte Antico, Milan (inv. no. 488). The present painting relates to two drawings, likely produced in Italy and carried back to the Netherlands for use in Poelenburgh's studio. One now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no. 8412) depicts the Arcus Argentariorum, a Roman arch dedicated to the Emperor Septimus Severus, which was incorporated into the western wall of the Church of San Giorgio in Velabro. The other drawing, although devoid of figures, served as the basis for the present painting and shows the ruined arch in an extended hilly landscape (fig. 1, Städel Museum, Frankfurt).