The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Gerard David.

It was painted around 1515 and is now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

[1] It can be compared with other works by David which depict the same subject, including paintings located in Madrid, Washington and New York and a Virgin and Child in Rotterdam.

However, in all of them David focuses attention on the seated Virgin Mary breastfeeding the Christ Child, enthroned in front of a deep forest landscape background.

In the far background there is usually a scene related to either the rest or to the journey to Egypt.