Perhaps by Giovanni Battista Crespi II Cerano (about 1575/76-1632) The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, oil on copper. In a colourful landscape setting, Mary nurses the child Jesus. The Holy Family fled to Egypt to escape Herod's command that all new-born boys should be killed. Painted on copper around 1600.

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Perhaps by Giovanni Battista Crespi II Cerano (about 1575/76-1632) The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, oil on copper. In a colourful landscape setting, Mary nurses the child Jesus. The Holy Family fled to Egypt to escape Herod's command that all new-born boys should be killed. Painted on copper around 1600.

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