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Black-and-white engraving: leafless tree, a rider on a donkey crossing a hilly landscape, soldiers attacking figures at right, French verse in the caption below.

January: Flight into Egypt and Massacre of the Innocents engraving

A black-and-white engraving labelled IANVIER, with a roundel of a winged figure above a leafless tree. On the left, a rider on a donkey and a walking companion cross a hilly landscape, while at lower right soldiers attack figures beside a timber building, and French verse fills the caption below.

Artist
Jan Gerritsz Swelinck
Date
1624-1645
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2596 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1645.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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