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- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803 - 1860)
- The Finding of Moses
- France
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- Date: 1837
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 29.2 x 46.1 cm
- Frame size: 60 x 78 x 10 cm
- Inv: P261
- Location: Arms and Armour IV
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- Exhibited at the 1839 Salon, this was Decamps’s first religious scene in oil. Pharoah’s daughter, accompanied by her attendants, discovers Moses in an ark of bulrushes on a bank of the Nile. He had been placed in the ark by his mother to escape Pharaoh’s orders to kill newborn Israelite boys (Exodus II, 1-9). The subject is one of the most frequently depicted in religious art.