This episode is taken from the Old Testament (Exodus 2: 5). Moses is discovered after being hidden in the bulrushes by the River Nile to save him from Pharaoh's decree that all Hebrew boys be killed. The composition seems to derive from Giovanni Battista ...

Create your own bespoke print of Orazio Gentileschi’s The Finding of Moses from our collection. About this painting The Finding of Moses, early 1630s © The National Gallery, London Bought with the support of the American Friends of the National Gallery, the National Gallery Trust, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund (through the legacy of Sir Denis Mahon & with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation), The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation, The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, The Capricorn Foundation, The Manny & Brigitta Davidson Charitable Foundation, Alejandro & Charlotte Santo Domingo, Beatrice Santo Domingo, The Wei Family & other donors, & through public appeal & bequests, 2020 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

In order to escape Pharoah's order to kill Israelite boys, Moses was placed in an ark of bulrushes in the Nile. He was found by the Pharoah's daughter & her attendants. Moses' sister Miriam offered to find a nurse for the child & so was able to return ...

This work combines a still life of dead fish in the foreground with a genre scene of figures in the background. This painting was presented as the work of Eugene Isabey & Philippe Rousseau. The background figures are possibly by Isabey, but there is no ...

The title is traditional, but the scene may not be actually be set in Dieppe. The artist was inspired by Dutch & Flemish painting of the 17th century, & has included figures in historical costume. Philippe Rousseau also painted this subject, & Isabey ...

Mary, Joseph & Jesus are shown travelling to Egypt. In the background are shown the Miracles of the Corn & of the Statue (legends associated with the Flight into Egypt). In the first, corn sprang up miraculously overnight so labourers could tell soldiers looking for the family that they had passed by before the corn had grown, & so mislead them into thinking this was long ago. Statues of pagan idols were said to have fallen as the Holy Family passed by. The Massacre of the Innocents is also shown, from which the Holy Family preserved the infant Jesus by their escape to Egypt. This panel & ' The Visitation of the Virgin to Saint Elizabeth', by the same workshop, are from the same altarpiece. ...

Create your own bespoke print of The Forerunners of Christ with Saints & Martyrs probably by Fra Angelico from our collection. About this painting The Forerunners of Christ with Saints & Martyrs: Inner Right Predella Panel, about 1423-4 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1860 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

This is one of a number of pictures by Barye of the Forest of Fontainebleau, possibly showing the rocks at the Gorges d' Apremont. Barye was a member of the group of landscape painters working in this area known as the Barbizon school. He is best known for ...

This is probably the ' Quatre ages de l'homme' by Valentin mentioned in the inventory of Michel Particelli, Seigneur d' Hemery, Paris, 1650. The picture was certainly in the celebrated collection of the Dukes of Orleans during most of the 18th century. Infan ...

A girl pulling on a stocking at the right is attended by a young man standing by her. The centre of attention in the room is another girl bedecked in flowers who admires herself in a mirror. This is the second in a series of four canvases by Lancret (all in the Collection) which represent the Four Ages of Man
- ' Childhood', ‘ Adolescence’, ' Youth', & ' Old Age'. The subject of ' Childhood' is play. The 'games' in ' Adolescence' have a more amorous purpose..
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