Follower of Anton van Dyck, second half of the 17th century.

Follower of ANTON VAN DYCK (Antwerp, 1599 - London, 1641); Flanders, second half of the 17th century.
"Rest from the flight to Egypt".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
It has a frame of the nineteenth century.
Measurements: 48 x 36 cm; 57,5 x 44,5 cm (frame).
This work is a version of similar measurements of the oil on canvas painted by Anton van Dyck (Antwerp, Belgium, 1599 - London, 1641) around 1630, currently preserved in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, with measurements of 135 x 115 cm. It is by the Valencian painter Arturo Martínez following a print of the Flemish master's work. However, the characteristic cold palette, even pearly, characteristic of van Dyck is not appreciated here, but the author of this work is clearly influenced by the naturalistic baroque derived from the influence of Caravaggio, and treats the work with warm colors, mainly earthy, ocher and carmine, and plays with light in a tenebrist way, creating more violent hallmarks than van Dyck, and focusing through them even more attention on the figure of the Child and the face of Mary.
Anton Van Dyck began his training with Van Balen, a Romanist painter, in 1609. In 1615-16 he worked with Jordaens, and between 1617 and 1620 with Rubens, who said that he was his best pupil. In 1620 he visited England for the first time, in the service of James I. In London he enjoyed greater freedom and left aside religious painting to devote himself fully to portraiture. Between 1621 and 1627 he completed his training with a trip to Italy, where he was impressed by Bolognese painting and the works of Titian, and here he achieved his mature, refined and elegant style, as well as establishing his own type of portrait, which became a model for Western painting. In 1629 he was again in London, this time working for King Charles I, who admired Titian's work and saw in Van Dyck his heir. Thus, he dismissed all his painters, having found in Van Dyck the court painter he had wanted for years. In 1640, on the death of Rubens, the painter returned to Antwerp to finish the works he had left unfinished. The following year he moved to Paris, and returned to London for health reasons, dying shortly thereafter at his home in the English capital. Anton Van Dyck is represented in major museums around the world: the Louvre, the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, the National Gallery and the British Museum in London, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Metropolitan in New York.