DOMENICHINO
(b. 1581, Bologna, d. 1641, Napoli)

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

c. 1605
Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 cm
Musée Francisque-Mandet, Riom

Many of Domenichino's landscapes include small figures. Here, instead, following Annibale Carracci's numerous examples he chose to employ relatively large ones.