The Finding of Moses
Artist
Luca Giordano
Italian, 1634–1705
Datecirca 1685–1690
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions60 3/8 x 82 3/8 in. (153.4 x 209.2 cm)
Frame: 71 3/8 x 94 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (181.3 x 239.4 x 7 cm)
Frame: 71 3/8 x 94 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (181.3 x 239.4 x 7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.158
On View
Not on viewW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 189, illus. (b-w).
Life (December 10, 1956), illus.
May Davis Hill, "Representations from the Old Testament in the Museum's Collection of Paintings," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 2 (Summer 1957), 9,12, illus. (b-w) 12.
Michael Milkovich, Luca Giordano in America: A Loan Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Memphis, TN: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1964), cat. no. 15, illus. p. 15.
Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizzi, Luca Giordano (Naples: Editore Scientifiche Italiane, 1966), Vol. 2, p. 86; Vol. 3, illus., fig. 146.
Edgar Peters Bowron, Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 201.
"Conservation," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1991-92), illus. (b-w) 55.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 190.
Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizzi, Luca Giordano: L'opera completa, Vol. 1 (Naples: Electa Napoli, 1992), 292.
Giuseppe Scavizzi, Luca Giorgdano: His Life and Work (Naples: Arte’m, 2017), discussed 131, illus. (color) 192, pl. 34.
Exhibition HistoryMemphis, TN, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Luca Giordano in America: A Loan Exhibition, April 1964.
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