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 ...

For the subject see Ovid, ' Metamorphoses' (6). Apollo defeated the satyr Marsyas in a musical competition; as a punishment for failure, Apollo flayed him. The picture was originally above the door of the Stanza di Apollo in Villa Aldobrandini, hence its fo ...

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. ...

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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Children play within a loggia, pulling along a girl on a toy cart, while a nurse who holds an infant looks on. This is the first of a series of four canvases by Lancret (all in the Collection) which represent the Four Ages of Man
- ' Childhood', ‘ Adolescence’, ' Youth', & ' Old Age'. The series, was engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin III; these engravings were announced as issued in July 1735, & it may be assumed that the pictures were painted not long before.
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A young girl rejects the advances of an old man at the left. At the right two elderly women are seated, one spinning & the other asleep. The seated figures may have been inspired by the peasant scenes of the Le Nain brothers. This is the last in a series of four canvases by Lancret (all in the Collection) which represent the Four Ages of Man
- ' Childhood', ‘ Adolescence’, ' Youth', & ' Old Age'.
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