Ecole française du XVIIe, atelier de Nicolas Poussin - Moïse sauvé des eaux

Oil on canvas (on its original canvas) , French school of the 17th century, Atelier de Poussin, representing Moses saved from the waters, according to the famous painting kept at the National Gallery in London, it represents the known biblical episode where Moses in his cradle is taken from the waters of the Niles by Pharaoh's daughter, the destiny of Moses far exceeds a large number of characters in the Bible. Promised to die by the decision of Pharaoh, he escapes, placed in a wicker basket by his mother on the Nils. Taken in by Pharaoh's daughter who raises him, and gives him the name Moses, which means: "saved from the waters". The work presented here is a workshop of Nicolas Poussin, a French school of the 17th century (1650/1660) ,
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