Louis Becker

LOUIS BECKER (France, active at the end of the 19th century).
"The Holy Family at the Rest of the Flight into Egypt", following models by Van Dyck.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
With patches on the back.
Measurements: 92 x 83 cm.

This work is a version 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 French painter Louis Becker 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.