# Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

- By: Herri met de Bles (Flemish, 1508–1551)
- Date: 1500-1550
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: width 65.5 cm, height 45.5 cm, height 36 cm, width 57 cm
- Culture: Flemish
- Museum: [SMK – National Gallery of Denmark](https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS1965)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/smk/d791sk05t_KMS1965.tif.reconstructed.tif.jp2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A tree in the middle of the painting divides the vast mountain landscape into two halves: the good and holy on one side and the evil and dissolute on the other. The drawing's motif On a small path in the foreground to the left Joseph is seen following Mary riding on a donkey holding the Infant Jesus in her arms. Their piety and spiritual demeanour causes a gilt statue of a heathen god to tumble to the ground as they pass it by. In the middle ground to the right a merry company comes riding in a cart. Their doings denounce them as the advocates of the Seven Deadly Sins. For example, the company is led by a man playing the bagpipes – a symbol of infidelity. Herri met de Bles and Herry de Patenier Herri met de Bles is believed to be the same person as a Herry de Patenier who was received as a master of the St. Luke’s Guild in Antwerp in 1535. He may have been related to his great idol Joachim Patenier (ca. 1480-1524), who can be credited with establishing a canon for the so-called ”Weltlandschaft” in which the eye is led through a wide panoramic landscape ranging from warm brown colours in the foreground to cool greens and distant blues.