The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

This beautifully rendered landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt was likely produced as a collaboration in the workshop of Jan Breughel II, who may himself have contributed the colorful and individualized flowers at lower right. The landscape and figural group, inspired by a woodcut after a Rubens composition (see The British Museum, inv. no. R,3.114), were painted by separate hands. Under the leadership of Jan the Younger, the Breughel workshop flourished. He orchestrated collaborations with the greatest masters of his time, including Peter Paul Rubens, Joos de Momper, Sebastian Vrancx and members of his own extended family, including his father-in-law Abraham Janssens and his brother-in-law David Teniers II.