© Ashmolean Museum
The Exposition of Moses
Artist: Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665)
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: 1654
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 150 x 204 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,000 (Total: £1,500)
Vendor: Margery Fry
Review number: 1609 (1950)
Provenance:
Painted in 1654 for the painter Jacques Stella; Orleans collection before 1727;sold 1798; Earl Temple; Stowe Sale 15.9.1948 (lot 420); A Robertson; Francis Gibson of Saffron Walden (d 1859); his son-in-law Lewis Fry; by descent to Miss Margery Fry.
Description:
The mother of Moses commits the cradle containing the baby, to the water, whilst looking toward the father who is walking away. To the right a river god reclines on a sphinx, the emblem of the Nile. A large city is in the background.
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