Benjamin West
Moses Shown the Promised Land
180150.2 x 73 cm
Oil on wood
Signed and dated on the rock at lower center: B. West 1801
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fosburgh, by exchange, 1969
Provenance
the artist, until 1820
his sons, Raphael West and Benjamin West Jr., 1820–1829
sale, George Robins, London, 22 May 1829, nr. 29
with Albert, 1829
sale, Sotheby and Company, London, 7 July 1965, nr. 132, as "Let There Be Light"
with Julius H. Weitzner, New York
with M. Knoedler and Company, New York, by 1969
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Other works by Benjamin West
Hagar and Ishmael
1776, reworked 1803
1776, reworked 1803
The Damsel and Orlando
c. 1793
c. 1793
Omnia Vincit Amor, or The Power of Love in the Three Elements
1809
1809
Sarah Ursula Rose
1756
1756
Una and the Lion (Mary Hall in the Character of Una)
1771
1771