Jan Brueghel the Elder

Edge of a Forest (The Flight into Egypt)



Jan Brueghel the Elder - Edge of a Forest (The Flight into Egypt)



Jan Brueghel the Elder
Edge of a Forest (The Flight into Egypt)
1610
25 x 36 cm
Oil on copper
Signed and dated bottom left corner: BRVEGHEL 1610
Hermitage, St. Petersburg


Literature

Colin Eisler, Paintings in the Hermitage, New York, 1990, p. 207
Natalya Gritsay and Natalya Babina, The State Hermitage Museum catalogue of Flemish painting, New Haven, 2008, nr. 63


Exhibitions

1988 Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Hermitage, Nr. 35

Iconclass

73B641 The flight into Egypt: Mary, Joseph, the child (and sometimes others) on their way; Mary usually riding on an ass

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