Erastus Salisbury Field

Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah)



Erastus Salisbury Field - Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah)



Erastus Salisbury Field
Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah)
1865-80
88.9 x 116.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1966


Provenance

with Robert Schuyler Tompkins, 1949
Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Cambridge, Maryland, until 1966

Iconclass

71E128 Jethro's visit to Moses: with Zipporah and her two sons he comes to the desert where Moses is encamped (Exodus 18)

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 66.242.25