Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Algardi)

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a c. 1640 gilt-bronze relief by Alessandro Algardi.^[1] It and its companion piece The Martyrdom of St Paul are contemporary replicas of the artist's reliefs accompanying the same artist's The Martyrdom of St Paul, a marble group for San Paolo Maggiore in Bologna.^[2] Both replicas are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, whilst a second version of Rest is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.^[3]

Alessandro Algardi, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1635, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.