Flemish forest landscape with flight of the Holy Family to Egypt as staffage






Inscription backside canvas: Ian Breughel.
Transverse rectangular painting, oil painting, canvas on stretcher frame with more recent decorative frame.
It depicts a northern landscape with woods, rocky hills, watercourses and settlements in the tradition of Flemish landscape painting. The Holy Family can be seen as a staffage fleeing to Egypt.
Adriaen van Stalbemt (1580, Antwerp - 1662, ibid.), "Escape of the Holy Family to Egypt in a Rock and Forest Landscape".
Museum der Stadt Alfeld, without inventory number
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o.D. - 1954 Luise Köneke, Alfeld/Leine, Hinsiekweg 40
(Quelle: Schreiben Kitzig an Stuttmann, 17.9.1953, Nieders. Landesarchiv HA Hann. 152 Acc. 2006/013 Nr. 18)
1954 - today (2019) Museum der Stadt Alfeld, purchased by Luise Köneke
(Quelle: Stadtarchiv Alfeld, Karton 10– MUSEUM, Mappe 112; Schreiben Barner an Fritz Kitzig, 22.12.1954).
Stadt Alfeld (Leine)
Marktplatz 1
310161 Alfeld
Germany