Pharaoh’s Daughter Discovers Moses in the Rush Basket, Moyses van Wtenbrouck, c. 1625 - c. 1627

Identification

Title(s)

Pharaoh’s Daughter Discovers Moses in the Rush Basket
Pharaoh's Daughter Discovers Moses in the Rush Basket

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4673

Inscriptions / marks

monogram, bottom centre on the parapet: ‘MB ƒ’

Description

Farao's dochter vindt Mozes in het biezen mandje. Landschap met een groep naakte en halfnaakte vrouwen badend aan de oever van de Nijl. Bij de waterkant staat een beeld van een hond (een sfinx?), rechts op de achtergrond enkele ruïnes.

Creation

Artist

painter: Moyses van Wtenbrouck (signed by artist)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1627

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 73.5 cm × width 99.5 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

Acquisition

purchase 1975

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer P. de Boer, Amsterdam, fl. 90,000, to the museum, with support from the Fotocommissie, 1975

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Art and allegiance in the Dutch Golden Age: the ambitions of a wealthy widow in a painted chamber by Ferdinand Bol, Margriet Henritha van Eikema Hommes, p. 111, afb. 105
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, p. 439, 440
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 88
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 140, afb. 1
Foto balpen kras op bil, reproductie referentie TF 95-7

Persistent URL

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