The Flight into Egypt
Warned in a dream, Joseph rises in the night and leads Mary and the child toward Egypt to escape Herod's wrath (Matthew 2). An oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1627).
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About Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 · Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker whose biblical works — in oil, panel, and etching — remain among the most psychologically searching treatments of Scripture in Western art.