Charles-hippolyte Cassas : "the Flight To Egypt" 1850

Charles-Hippolyte Cassas was born in 1800 in Paris, where he entered the Beaux-Arts at barely 14 as a student of Gros teaches us the Bénézit. Regular exhibitor of the Salon, we know that he made the "Voyage en Italie" essential to the training of young artists and brought back works of Rome, Nenni, etc ...
Our painting, oil on paper mounted on panel, despite its Christian subject and a situation in Egypt suggested by a vague pyramid in the background is visibly linked to this stay as evidenced by the outfit of the Virgin who is very "Roman". Imbued with maternal tenderness, with the Child who tenderly embraces his Mother's neck, this "Stop on the Flight into Egypt" with Joseph who comes in the background, luggage on his head and leaning on a long cane is painted in a circular arc format measuring 36 cm high by 50 cm base, is signed and dated 1850 and is mounted in a beaded frame 44 X 57 cm to be glued at the top.
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