This tender and subdued scene by Ludo Laagland portrays the biblical Flight into Egypt using a language that is both simple and striking. A man – likely Joseph – leads a donkey through a vast, snow-covered plain. On the animal sits Mary with the child in her arms, her scarf caught in the wind.
The colour palette is soft yet powerful: purples, browns, blues and greys create a balance between cold and warmth. The horizon is low, the sky immense, and the moon watches silently from above. The painting evokes a sense of loneliness, yet also human connection and fragile hope.
Laagland reduces his landscapes and figures to their essential form. This composition reflects his signature restraint and stylisation: no superfluous detail, just rhythm, line and emotion. It is both a religious tableau and a universal image of protection, devotion and perseverance.
Details:
• Artist: Ludo Laagland (Paal 1923 – 2006 Pellenberg)
• Painting on panel
• Condition: excellent
• Signed
• Sale with frame
• Size without frame: 28.4 cm x 22.5 cm
• Size with frame: 44.2 cm x 38.2 cm
• Origin: auction
