The Flight into Egypt
c. 1503–5
- Medium
- woodcut
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-206274
Although Dürer’s woodcut depicts a later event in the biblical narrative, the composition is similar to the scene from the Mirror of Holiness, "Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem" CMA 2005.145.24.b—even to the inclusion of an ox. Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus fled Jerusalem for Egypt after Joseph was warned in a dream that Jesus’s life was in danger. The dense, dark forest through which the Holy Family travels seems to close threateningly around them. While the Indian artist envisioned a “pack beast” as a camel, Dürer invented a Middle Eastern landscape by incorporating a palm tree and …
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1959.99.14
Registry history
- c. 1503–5 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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