This painting depicts the Pharaoh’s daughter caring for baby Moses and Moses’s mother Jochebed nursing him. Placing Moses’s mothers together invites a viewer to consider their relationship to each other and to Moses.
Title of Art: The Finding of Moses
Subjects: Jochebed, Pharaoh's Daughter
Subject Century: c. 1600-1200 BC
Artist: Carlo Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Art Form: Painting
Date of Composition: c.1560
Event: Women in Exodus
Exhibit Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 608
Exhibit Location: New York, NY
VM Image #: 0171
Photographer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gwynne Andrews Fund, 1939 (OA Public Domain)
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