Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Aelbert Cuyp

ca. 1650 · Oil on wood · European Paintings

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.

Artist

Aelbert Cuyp

Date

ca. 1650

Medium

Oil on wood

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Bequest of Josephine Bieber, in memory of her husband, Siegfried Bieber, 1970