Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1635 Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) French Claude executed more drawings and paintings on the biblical theme of the Flight into Egypt than on any other subject. During the 1630s, Claude repeatedly revisited the theme, each time varying his approach, creating variations on the composition and making full use of the various drawing media. This sheet is connected to a painting preserved in an English private collection whose date, difficult to decipher, seems to be 1635. On stylistic grounds, such a date would be plausible for the Metropolitans drawing as well, which would place it just before 1636 when the artist began to record his finished canvases in drawn ricordi kept bound in a book entitled the Liber Veritatis. Characteristic of many of Claudes landscapes dating from the mid-1630s, the trees are grouped in large masses and arranged on either side of the sheet, framing a narrow view into the distance. In this carefully composed