Moses Defending the Daughers of Jethro (after Le Brun)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 10 5/8 × 14 3/8 in. (27 × 36.5 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 3/4 in. (31.7 × 42.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962
Accession Number
62.557.90
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Le Brun|Jean Audran|Benoit Audran the Elder · 1619–1690
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) was the most powerful artistic figure in seventeenth-century France, serving as the virtual dictator of official taste during the reign of Louis XIV and shaping the visual identity of the French Baroque in ways that resonated for generations. Born in Paris, he trained under the painter Simon Vouet before traveling to Rome in 1642, where he studied the works of Nicolas P...