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The Holy Family rest on the way to Egypt, eating from a miraculous tree. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Maratta. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The flight into Egypt is described in Bible, N.T. Matthew 2.12-15. The story of a palm tree bending down at the will of the infant Christ to furnish the Holy Family with dates is told in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, chapters 20-21. In the present picture Joseph hands the fruit down to Christ: it appears to consist of olives on a branch. See further Louis Réau, Iconographie de l'art chrétien, Paris 1957, vol. 2, pp. 278-279
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