Pharoah's daughter finds Moses (1886) by the British painter Edwin Longsden Long. This is a very traditional subject in art history and lots of painters made a version of that story. What's relatively new is the historical exotic touch. Long traveled to Syria and Egypt and was specialized in oriental paintings.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Finding Moses
Pharoah's daughter finds Moses (1886) by the British painter Edwin Longsden Long. This is a very traditional subject in art history and lots of painters made a version of that story. What's relatively new is the historical exotic touch. Long traveled to Syria and Egypt and was specialized in oriental paintings.
Historical exotic touch indeed :) Long created a truly beautiful image, but I don't suppose the Victorian viewer would have cared too much that Moses was placed in the bullrushes to hide him from brutal murder.
ReplyDeleteI must have another look at Long, especially since you noted that he travelled to the middle east himself.