1735 (ca.), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Finding of Moses -- National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh)
From the museum label: Tiepolo treats the Old Testament story of Pharaoh's daughter rescuing the infant Moses from the bulrushes in a light-hearted, irreverent way, with a cast of characters that could have been drawn from contemporary popular theatre. A section showing a foot-soldier with a dog was long ago cut from the right edge and is now in the Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin. This picture, which shows Tiepolo's admiration for the sixteenth-century Venetian painter Paolo Veronese, is first recorded in the collection of the Venetian nobleman Andrea Corner at Palazzo Corner della Regina on the Grand Canal.
1735 (ca.), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Finding of Moses -- National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh)
From the museum label: Tiepolo treats the Old Testament story of Pharaoh's daughter rescuing the infant Moses from the bulrushes in a light-hearted, irreverent way, with a cast of characters that could have been drawn from contemporary popular theatre. A section showing a foot-soldier with a dog was long ago cut from the right edge and is now in the Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin. This picture, which shows Tiepolo's admiration for the sixteenth-century Venetian painter Paolo Veronese, is first recorded in the collection of the Venetian nobleman Andrea Corner at Palazzo Corner della Regina on the Grand Canal.