Livestock, woodland animals, and about a dozen people cluster in groups throughout a densely wooded landscape with rocky outcroppings and the ruins of a round structure in this horizontal painting. The people all appear to have light skin. A narrow river curves from near the lower left corner of the composition back around a grove of trees on a spit of land. One white, long-necked bird stands near a rock on the riverbank, and a second bird, shown in flight low over the water, clutches a short snake in its beak. Three deer stand in the deeply shadowed trees, and two goats perch on the rocky…
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Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Roelandt Savery (Dutch, 1576 - 1639)

1624

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 54.3 x 91.5 cm (21 3/8 x 36 in.) ; framed: 71.1 x 107.6 x 5.7 cm (28 x 42 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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