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Dark etching of a man with a lantern leading a horse carrying a veiled woman through a night landscape.

The Flight Into Egypt: A Night Piece

A dark etching shows a man holding a lantern that lights his face and the ground at lower left, leading a horse carrying a veiled woman on its back. Dense, crosshatched lines dissolve the surrounding night into shadow, with the figures emerging faintly from darkness.

Artist
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Date
1651
Medium
Etching on off-white laid paper
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
3438 × 3999 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1651).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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