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| Landscape with the Flight into Egypt |
Artist:Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, Dordrecht 1620–1691 Dordrecht)
Date:ca. 1650
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:18 x 22 7/8 in. (45.7 x 58.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Josephine Bieber, in memory of her husband, Siegfried Bieber, 1970
Accession Number:1973.155.2
Cuyp never went to Italy, but he emulated Dutch Italianate painters who had been there, above all Jan Both (ca. 1615/18–1652). Here the Holy Family’s route to Egypt seems to lead from Rhineland rocks and trees to an idyllic coast near Genoa.
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