The Finding of Moses
after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
585 x 520 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719418
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Finding of Moses, after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588). 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, who had been watching nearby, was able to return him to his mother.
Provenance
Bought by Wiggett Chute, April 1847, as a replica by Teniers; in 1880s Notes, as: "The Finding of Moses (Teniers), in the Chapel Parlour; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Makers and roles
after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588), artist previously catalogued as attributed to David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), artist