Printmakers’ plates frequently had second lives after their makers died. Such plates were often purchased by print publishers who reworked and reprinted them for financial gain. The case of the copper plate for Rembrandt’s The Flight into Egypt, however, is quite unusual. This plate began life as Tobias and the Angel, an etching created by Hercules Segers in the 1620s. Rembrandt, who greatly admired the older artist’s work, acquired the plate and proceeded to rework the composition to make it his own. He scraped out the two large figures dominating the landscape at right and replaced them with an intimate group of Mary and the Christ Child riding on a donkey, accompanied by Joseph. Close inspection reveals traces of the angel’s wing in the tree at right.