Landschaft mit der Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten

Nowadays the painter is also well known as an outstanding landscape painter in the tradition of Patinier. To the right he depicts the so-called cornfield legend: Mary has requested a peasant, should he be asked by Herod’s soldiers about the fugitives, to tell them he saw them go past at the time that the harvest was sown. By a miracle the grain grows overnight so that when the persecutors pass the very place the next day and see the mature wheat, they abandon the chase.