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Title
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Rest on the flight into Egypt
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Alternative Title
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Flight into Egypt
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Creator
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Haidt, John Valentine
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Publisher
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Bethlehem Digital History Project
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Date
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1754?-1774?
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Type
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Still image
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Format
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oil on canvas ; 17 x 20 in.
image/jpeg
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Description
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Colored oil painting on canvas of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph seated by the roadside, eating grapes that Joseph has just pulled from a vine hanging overhead.
Description from 1982 exhibition by Charlene Engel:
"In this delightful, small painting the blue glazing, the watery landscape and the cloud-filled sky are reminiscent of the work of such landscapists as Joachim Patinir (c. 1475-1524). An elderly Joseph offers grapes, symbolic of Christ's sacrificial blood, to the child on his mother's knee. The head of Mary's donkey peers out from behind Joseph in the middle ground of the painting."
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Subject
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Haidt, John Valentine
Oil sketches
Jesus Christ--Family--Art
Jesus Christ--Flight into Egypt--Art
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Identifier
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0743
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Provenance
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Gift of Nazareth Hall Military Academy, 1929.
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Rights Holder
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Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Flight into Egypt