Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Rest on Flight into Egypt
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
baby
Bible: New Testament
children
Christ
family
Flight into Egypt
group
groups
Matthew, chapter 2
mother and child
people
religion and belief
society
Virgin Mary
woman
painting oil paint canvas
11 March 2022 – 18 June 2022
2022-06-18
11 March 2022 – 18 June 2022
2022-06-18
2022-03-11
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2022-03-11
JMW Turner
Loan-out
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
support: 1505 × 1118 mm
frame: 1603 × 1215 × 75 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>153. [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-rest-on-the-flight-into-egypt-n05497" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05497</span></a>] <b>The Finding of Moses</b> <i>c.</i> 1805?
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<br/>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5497)
<br/>Canvas, 59 1/4 × 44 (150·5 × 111·5)
<br/><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (?259, ‘1 (Figure subject)’ 4'11 1/2" × 3'8 1/2"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, p. 160; Ziff 1980, p. 169.</p>
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<p>The identification of the subject is due to Mary Chamot; Martin Davies' title was ‘Three Women and a Baby (unfinished)’. The picture, as yet unrestored, is difficult to date. Although more roughly painted than <i>The Procuress</i> (No. 152 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-procuress-judith-with-the-head-of-holofernes-n05500" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05500</span></a>]) it seems, like that picture, to represent Turner's reaction to the Venetian pictures he saw in the Louvre in 1802, in particular the works of Titian and Veronese. Turner's renewed interest in figure subjects on this scale as a result of his second visit to Italy in 1828–9 seems to have resulted in works of a rather richer <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impasto" title="Glossary definition for 'Impasto'"><span>texture</span></a>, whether thinly painted like the <i>Reclining Venus</i> (No. 296 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-reclining-venus-n05498" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05498</span></a>]) or more heavily worked up like <i>Two Women and a Letter</i> (No. 448 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-two-women-with-a-letter-n05501" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05501</span></a>]).</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults baby Bible: New Testament children Christ family Flight into Egypt group groups Matthew, chapter 2 mother and child people religion and belief society Virgin Mary woman