It was here, in the early 1630s, that he was commissioned to paint The Finding of Moses for Charles’s wife, Queen Henrietta Maria. The painting was almost certainly intended to celebrate the birth of ...

"Landscape, with the Story of Finding Moses (Richard Earlom)(After Claude Lorrain) , G7911,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Sep 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/275603.

Moses is shown upside down and bawling, while the cast of supporting characters could have been drawn from contemporary popular theatre. A section of the painting showing a foot-soldier with a dog was ...

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Painters commonly made connections between images of the infant Moses and the young Jesus Christ escaping the Massacre of the Innocents. The four maidens on the left of this painting recall the ...

canvas: 38 x 31½ in. (96.5 x 80 cm.); overall: 62½ x 34 3/8 in. (158.7 x 87.3 cm.) ...

This painting shows the finding of baby Moses by Pharoah’s daughter, Thermutis. She is identified by her crown. Made in Venice, this painting reflects a European royal court of the time, rather than ...

This work constitutes one of the peaks of achievement in European art. The story of Moses held a particular fascination for Poussin, providing him with subjects for nineteen of his pictures, almost ...