Forest Landscape with Woodcutters (Flight into Egypt) (St. Petersburg)
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Religious |
Date | 1607 |
Dimensions | 51.5 x 91.5 cm |
Support | Panel |
Medium | Oil |
Signature | BRUEGHEL 1607 |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #247 Ertz 1979, #154 |
Location | St. Petersburg, Russia |
Collection | The Hermitage |
Accession numbers | inv. #424 |
Tags | Resting, Cattle, Forest, Mountain, Holy family, New Testament |
Unusual interpretation of the narrative using the Joseph-as-carpenter to allow for woodcutters; sometimes identification of subject has been doubted but I am pretty certain that this is correct.