# The Flight into Egypt [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ELSHEIMER, Adam]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on silvered copper, oval 10 x 7,6 cm ## Commentary The Flight into Egypt c. 1605 Oil on silvered copper, oval 10 x 7,6 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth This tiny painting demonstrates Elsheimer's extraordinary skill as a painter of oval works. The landscape, bathed in light, is exceptionally delicate. A distant castle on the left is immersed in the atmospheric, hazy blue of the mountains, while to the right minutely observed figures carry out their rural occupations on soft woodland slopes. ## Related artworks - [Apollo and Coronis]() - [Apollo and the Cattle of Admetus]() - [Aurora]() - [Ceres and Stellio]() - [Flight into Egypt]() - [Glorification of the Cross]() - [Il Contento]() - [Jacob's Dream]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Jupiter and Mercury at Philemon and Baucis \(detail\)]() - [Jupiter and Mercury at Philemon and Baucis]() - [Nymph Fleeing Satyrs]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()