Rijksmuseum

De vlucht naar Egypte, op een plaat van Segers

Date

c. 1653

Medium

Japanese paper (handmade paper)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Rembrandt’s admiration for the art of Hercules Segers is well known. Here, this is evident in a very unusual way. For this Flight into Egypt, Rembrandt used a copper plate by Segers with Tobias and the Angel. He effaced the original figures in the plate, replacing them with the Holy Family. He left the landscape largely untouched.

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