Six elegantly dressed, light-skinned women, a man with dark brown skin, and a person of short stature gather around a nude baby boy in front of a landscape with a town in the distance in this vertical painting. Attention is focused on the baby, held by a woman kneeling to our lower left, and on a woman wearing a silver and gold-colored brocade dress standing near the center of the painting. The central woman's dress is trimmed with gold and jewels. She wears a pearl necklace, and her blond hair is wrapped with pearls around a gold, jeweled tiara. She leans to our right, toward another woman…
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The Finding of Moses

painter Veronese (Venetian, 1528 - 1588)

c. 1581/1582

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 58 x 44.5 cm (22 13/16 x 17 1/2 in.) ; framed: 81.12 × 67.95 × 7.3 cm (31 15/16 × 26 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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