Palestinian Landscape with Holy Family (Flight into Egypt)

South Africa, Cape Town, Iziko South African National Gallery, inv. 303 , as IVDS

Category	paintings
Support	canvas
Medium	oil
Composition	vertical
Dimensions	116,5 x 92 cm
Location	permanent collection

Last attribution known	IVDS
Other attribution(s)	Flemish?; unknown, XVII; Van Uden, L. (circle)
Size	L
Our assessment	possibly IVDS

Possessor(s)

Michaelis, Lady ( South Africa )

Bibliography

BAX, D., Hollandse en Vlaamse schilderkunst in Zuid-Africa: Hollandse en Vlaamse schilderijen uit de zeventiende eeuw in Zuid-Afrikaans bezit, Amsterdam and Capetown, 1952, p. 121, 130 (as Flemish?)

SANG, Check-list of the Permanent Collections. Cape Town: South African National Gallery, 1982 (as unknown, XVII)

CARMAN, J., Seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish paintings in South Africa: a checklist of paintings in public collections, Johannesburg, 1994, p. 66, 117 (as Van Uden, L. (circle))

VAN HAUTE, B., Flemish paintings of the Seventeenth century in South African public collections, Pretoria, 2006, p. 102, ill. p. 103 (as IVDS)

Comment

According to Bernadette Van Haute (see Bibliography), given the unusual vertical form of this work, it is probably the remaining fragment of an original larger painting of horizontal format, which is also suggested by the thick branch with reddish brown leaves in the top left corner.