ARTURO MART?NEZ CABEZAS (Valencia, 1899-¿).
La Sagrada Familia en el descanso de la huida a Egipto" ("The Holy Family at Rest during the Flight into Egypt"), 1960, following models by Van Dyck.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the upper left corner.
Precise cleaning.
With some lack of polychrome.
Measurements: 106 x 91 cm; 129 x 113 cm (frame).

This work is a version, of similar measurements, 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 Valencian painter Arturo Martínez 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.