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
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...