# The Flight into Egypt, in 17th-century Flanders

Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck painted this in about 1650, aged about 44. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> The flight into Egypt—a common subject in European art—refers to an episode in the life of Christ when his family fled King Herod, who sought to kill the infant Jesus. Abraham van Diepenbeeck made the theme his own by including an angel and the inquisitive cow at bottom right.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1650
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Dimensions: 43.8 × 31.8 cm (17 1/4 × 12 1/2 in.); Framed: 64.8 × 53.4 × 10.2 cm (25 1/2 × 21 × 4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.44
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/abraham-jansz-van-diepenbeeck), Flemish, 1596–1675

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