The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an oil painting of around 1515 by the Flemish painter Gerard David now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[1] It can be compared with other works on the same theme by the same painter in Madrid, Washington, and Antwerp and a Virgin and Child in Rotterdam.

The composition is near-identical to the Madrid and Washington examples, though the New York one shows an apple branch instead of a basket.

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.