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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Madonna with Partridges)
by 1632 · oil on canvas · State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
For the Holy Family
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Partridges break out of the sky over a ring of dancing children, and the rest of the orchard holds still. Anthony van Dyck sets Our Lady under an apple tree with the Christ Child clinging at her neck, her face turned up and away; Saint Joseph rests his head on his hand behind them. The Hermitage credits the picture to van Dyck and Paul de Vos. A parrot sits in the branches and a sunflower leans above her. Natalia Gritsay, the Hermitage's curator of Flemish painting, reads the birds as lust, whose attribute they were, driven off by the Virgin's purity; in the same reading the apple tree makes Mary the new Eve, and the sunflower and the parrot call her undefiled. The painting is named after what is leaving it. The children keep dancing while the partridges go up.
Sources: Natalia Gritsay, curator of Flemish painting, The State Hermitage Museum, 'Virgin with Partridges', published by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation under the Guggenheim-Hermitage collaboration; read 2026-08-27. hermitagemuseum.org itself was unreachable from this environment. · Imperial Hermitage, Catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux, vol. 2, Écoles néerlandaises et école allemande, revised by A. Somov (St Petersburg: C. Daline, 1891), no. 603; digitised by the Getty Research Institute, read 2026-08-27. · The State Hermitage Museum, object page ГЭ-539, Author: "Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641); Vos, Pauwel (Paul) de"; read 2026-10-17.
Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:
Matthew 2:14 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)