Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
Aelbert Cuyp
ca. 1650
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
18 x 22 7/8 in. (45.7 x 58.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Josephine Bieber, in memory of her husband, Siegfried Bieber, 1970
Accession Number
1973.155.2
Tags
CowsLandscapesHoly Family
About the Artist
Aelbert Cuyp · 1620–1691
Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691), a leading figure of the Dutch Golden Age, was born and died in Dordrecht, Netherlands, where he spent his entire life. The son of portraitist and animal painter Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–1652), Aelbert came from a family of artists—his uncle Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp and grandfather Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp were stained-glass designers—and studied under his father, with whom he ...