Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 32

Literature
Ivan Gaskell, Seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish painting, London, 1990. p. 447, fig. 2

Provenance

Mrs. Edward Romilly, London, until died 1878
posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 23 March 1878, nr. 128, to Colnaghi
with Colnaghi, London, from 1878
Étienne Martin, baron de Beurnonville, Paris, until 1881
his sale, Pillet, Paris, 9-16 May 1881, nr. 247, to Sedelmeyer
with Sedelmeyer, Paris, from 1881, sold to Kann
Rodolphe Kann, Paris, by 1898–died 1905
his estate, 1905–7, sold to Duveen
with Duveen, London and New York, 1907–15
their sale, American Art Association, New York, 29 April 1915, nr. 9, to Knoedler
with Knoedler, New York, 1915–27
sale, Christie's, London, 8 July 1927, nr. 114, to Duits
with Duits, London, from 1927
with A.S. Drey, Munich, in 1931
Mrs. Siegfried (Josephine) Bieber, Berlin and New York, until died 1970

Iconclass

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

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1973.155.2

Other works by Aelbert Cuyp

Dordrecht harbor by moonlight
c. 1643-45

Landscape with Maid Milking a Cow
c. 1655

Children and a Cow
1635–39

Cattle and herders with Mariakerk, Utrecht
early 1640s

Ubbergen Castle
mid 1650s