The Finding of Moses
by BACKER, Jacob de, Oil on panel, 96 x 162 cm
The biblical story (Exodus 2: 3-9) tells of an infant boy left out in a basket on the Nile, who is found by Pharaoh’s daughter and brought up by her as her own son, Moses. In the centre of the present representation is the seated figure of the Pharaoh’s daughter. Gracefully dressed and wearing a crown, a servant girl stands behind her, fanning her with a canopy of feathers.