Maybe it’s because I am going to be traveling on and off for a month but I am enchanted by the depictions of the Holy Family traveling. I stumbled across them serendipitiously.

The Art Institute of Chicago had loads of stamps with the image. This is Monaco’s version. Then, Hungary.

Then this lovely brown ink and what not… c. 1626 from the National Gallery of Art, Public Domain.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino Bolognese, 1591 – 1666

Roelandt Savery, a Dutch artist painted the next example (1624) and I needed the notes on the picture to see what was going on! The Holy Family is passing under the archway in the painting, and not even the bigger rounder arch on the left! Most people don’t even see them but the shepherds have taken off their hats because they realize that Something is Up. Landscape with the Flight into Egypt.

Balthasar Moncornet, Artist, French, c. 1600 – 1668 drew the Holy Family entering a very non-Egyptian town.

Simone Cantarini painted this Rest on the Flight Into Egypt or The Miracle of the Palm Tree. Out of all the pictures that I could have chosen, and there are pages and pages, why this one? Because the baby is so cute when he reaches up for the fruit!

Two more pictures, both engravings from Albrecht Dürer. Nothing like looking at the same idea painted by many different people to really sharpen the eye. There are at least a dozen pictures that are very similar to this one. But they aren’t Dürer! The Flight into Egypt, 1504.

And this lovely engraving of what the Holy Family did while in Egypt, also Dürer, 1504 Sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt.

I love all the little angels helping Saint Joseph, while Mary spins and the baby rocks.

Happy travels to one and all.