Kompositionsudkast til bibelsk scene. Flugten til Ægypten 1900 - 1904

This biblical scene, made with pencil on paper by Niels Larsen Stevns, feels like a whisper. It’s as if I’m catching the artist in a moment of quiet contemplation, a delicate sketch where the lines barely touch the surface. You can see the fragility of the scene, Joseph leading the donkey with Mary and baby Jesus, a scene of migration and flight. I like to imagine what it might have been like to create. Maybe Stevns was thinking of other artists like Giotto who had depicted the same scene, and how to make it his own. Look at how the sketch suggests movement. Those gentle marks under the donkey suggest the path ahead, the journey into the unknown. It makes you wonder about the journey of artists too. How we are all in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas, inspiring one another to be creative. It's nice to think that an image of escape can lead to all kinds of places, even here.