Rest on the Flight into Egypt
The original, as its museum records it
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Matthew never halts the family on the road to Egypt. The stop under the trees comes from the apocryphal Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, where Mary asks for fruit and the Child tells a palm to bend its branches and refresh his mother. Claude hands the fruit to kneeling angels, who hold it out to the Child.
He moved the road too. Cleveland's note is that this event from the East has been set in the countryside outside Rome, and that such pictures sold across Europe as a calm retreat from the city. The family rests. The landscape is what was bought.
Sources: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt', Claude Lorrain, 1962.151, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund · Matthew 2:14-15, Douay-Rheims (Challoner). · The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, ch. 20, trans. Alexander Walker (ANF 8), New Advent · Wikipedia, 'Flight into Egypt', sections on apocryphal legends and on the Rest on the Flight in art · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API, artwork 1962.151
Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:
Matthew 2:14 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.