Landscape with Flight into Egypt. Landscape with the Flight into Egypt is a 1563 oil on wooden board painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, showing the biblical Flight into Egypt of Mary and Joseph with the infant Jesus.
It measures 37.1 by 55.6 centimetres and is displayed at the Courtauld Gallery in London. The work is a naturalistic world landscape, following the conventions established by Joachim Patinir.
The ostensible subject, the Holy Family, are small figures in an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint, with mountains and lowlands, water, and buildings. The subject had long been a popular one in Early Netherlandish art, and increasingly so since Patinir.
Joseph is leading a donkey, bearing Mary who is holding the infant Jesus, tightly wrapped for the journey; his white head can be seen on her chest. They are descending a slope overlooking an Alpine landscape, with a wide river valley bordered by hills and mountains.
The painting is dominated by tones of brown and green for the land, and the blue of the water and sky. Mary's unusual red cloak and white headgear makes her stand out against the blue of the river, while Joseph's greyish clothes contrast with the green and brown background of wooded hills. In the background, the buildings of towns are faintly visible on each side of the river. On the tree stump to the right, a pagan statue has fallen out of its shrine as the family pas
It measures 37.1 by 55.6 centimetres and is displayed at the Courtauld Gallery in London. The work is a naturalistic world landscape, following the conventions established by Joachim Patinir.
The ostensible subject, the Holy Family, are small figures in an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint, with mountains and lowlands, water, and buildings. The subject had long been a popular one in Early Netherlandish art, and increasingly so since Patinir.
Joseph is leading a donkey, bearing Mary who is holding the infant Jesus, tightly wrapped for the journey; his white head can be seen on her chest. They are descending a slope overlooking an Alpine landscape, with a wide river valley bordered by hills and mountains.
The painting is dominated by tones of brown and green for the land, and the blue of the water and sky. Mary's unusual red cloak and white headgear makes her stand out against the blue of the river, while Joseph's greyish clothes contrast with the green and brown background of wooded hills. In the background, the buildings of towns are faintly visible on each side of the river. On the tree stump to the right, a pagan statue has fallen out of its shrine as the family pas
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