# The Finding of Moses

- By: Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
- Date: c. 1655 - c. 1656
- Medium: paper, pencil, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 122 mm x width 134 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1887-A-1188--4383076df8d3aa745039b0614605d932)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/slpir/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This is a rare history scene in Gesina ter Borch’s oeuvre. Depicted is the infant Moses being rescued from the Nile by the Pharaoh’s daughter and her maids. With her characteristic attention to human gestures, facial expressions and costume Ter Borch here created a dynamic composition. In the watercolour drawing based on it in her Konstboek (Art Book), she enlarged the figures and omitted the one at the back.