God Appearing to Moses
Pierre Brebiette
ca. 1632
Medium
Red and white chalk on buff laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 9 7/16 x 7 7/8 in. (24 x 20 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Galerie Coatalem, 2004
Accession Number
2004.242
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
InfantsDogsSheepMoses
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette · 1598–1642
Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...