The Flight into Egypt, on a Plate by Segers, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1653
etching, engraving and drypoint, printed on Japanese paper, h 211mm × w 284mm More details
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.
