The Flight into Egypt with peasants resting under a tree nearby and a shepherd with his flock on a road beyond, a valley in the distance

Gillis Mostaert was born in Haarlem where his father Jan had settled as a portrait painter. Soon after his birth, the Mostaert family moved to Antwerp, where Gillis would become one of the most popular painters of his day. In the present picture, Mostaert must have been responsible for the staffage, while the landscape is probably by a different hand.