Moses found in the Bullrushes
Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
120 x 160 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Antony Private Collection, Cornwall
NT 353040
Caption
Pharoah's daughters and handmaidens find Moses whilst they are washing at the river. According to the biblical story (Exodus 2: 1-10) the Pharoah in Egypt had ordered all male infants of Isarealites to be put to death. Moses's mother made an ark of bulrushes and put him in it and laid it in the reeds of the Nile's riverbank. Recognising him as a Hebrew child the women sought a nurse for him, so Moses's sister, Miriam, who had been watching nearby, was able to return him to his mother.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Moses found in the Bullrushes, Italian School, circa 1700. A group of female figures, attended by a male servant on the left, one kneeling, in the foreground, picking up a baby in swaddling clothes with a mountainous landscape in the distance.
Provenance
Unknown acquisition; on loan from Trustees of Antony
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist