# Departure into Egypt (At the Inn)

- By: Henry Ossawa Tanner (born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937)
- Date: n.d.
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 21 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. (54.4 x 46.4 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=23649)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/27fb6e829e21c128c74284dcd6cd8641.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This painting is different from Henry Ossawa Tanner’s other paintings on the same theme, in which the Holy Family flees through the desert to save their son from Herod. In Departure into Egypt (At the Inn), Mary, who holds her newborn, is just starting her journey. The bearded man holding the lantern is not Joseph, but probably the guard who will lead them out of the city.