Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Workshop of - Mosè salvato dalle acque

This is a beautiful and pleasant oil on paper mounted on canvas, dating from the seventeenth century. The author must surely have been a collaborator of the workshop or an exponent of Nicolas Poussin's circle, because this painting, far from being a copy of a painting by the French master, is a kind of study or contemporaneous elaboration of Poussin's paintings dealing with the finding of Moses.

The characters are of excellent quality, as is the chromatic orchestration and the buildings in the background.

Attached at the end of the description is a photograph of the painting by Poussin kept in the Louvre to better understand the similarity, in the section devoted to images.

In particular, our painting closely resembles the one kept in the Louvre, while maintaining absolute compositional autonomy. In the background one recognizes a typical Egyptian city, with pyramids and temples. The characters are typically classical, and reflect the classicism of the painter we have just mentioned.

The characters are depicted in the act of witnessing the discovery of Moses, who is in the wicker basket. It should be recalled that there are currently about twenty works by Nicolas Poussin relating to the theme of Moses's discovery. It was a theme he dealt with several times, and with many versions of paintings that are kept in some important museums around the world.

The dimensions of the painting including the frame are: 41 cm x 56 cm, while without the frame, which is not contemporary but dates to the early twentieth century, it measures 46 cm x 30 cm.

The canvas on which the paper is affixed is typically seventeenth-century (see photograph of the back). The painting does not require restoration.

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