The Finding of Moses
Adriaen van Stalbemt (Antwerp 1580 – Antwerp 1662)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1662
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1260 mm (Width); 980 mm (Width)
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Melford Hall, Suffolk
NT 926819
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Finding of Moses by Adriaen van Stalbemt (Antwerp 1580 – Antwerp 1662). Seven women with Moses in arms, basket on ground, river and castle at left. 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
Part of the Hyde Parker collection, transferred from HM Treasury, 1966
Makers and roles
Adriaen van Stalbemt (Antwerp 1580 – Antwerp 1662)