The Finding of Moses

between 1647 and 1650

Laurent de La Hyre French, 1606-1656

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European: Poussin, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Finding of Moses

Artwork Date between 1647 and 1650

Artist Laurent de La Hyre

Life Dates 1606-1656

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 27 1/2 × 35 1/4 inches (69.9 × 89.5 cm) Framed: 33 1/4 × 41 1/8 × 3 1/4 inches (84.5 × 104.5 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman H. Mopper

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.30

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Provenance

private collection (Paris, France);
April 6, 1836, sold by (Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, France) lot 9;
private collection (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
by June 1969, Dr. Coleman Mopper (1927-1996) and Shirley Mopper (1927-2010) (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue D’Une Intèressante Collection de Tableaux. Sales cat., Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, April 6, 1836, no. 9.

“The Finding of Moses.” The Daily Tribune - Royal Oak Michigan, November 13, 1970, p. 6.

Rosenberg, Pierre and Jacques Thuillier. “The Finding of Moses by La Hyre.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 49, 2 (1970): pp. 27-31 (ill.). [attributed by W. Valentiner to Joseph Vien.]

Cummings, Frederick J. “Curatorial and Museum Department Reports: Department of European Art.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 52, no. 1 (1973): 13-16, pp. 13-14.

Rosenberg, Pierre, Jacques Thuillier and Harald s. Tzeutschler. “Laurent de La Hyre: The Kiss of Peace and Justice.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 9 (November 1974): 300-308, p. 302, p. 307, no. 5.

France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1982, p. 353, no. 12 (ill.). [as Moses Saved from the Bullrushes]

Laurent de La Hyre 1606-1656: L'homme et l'oeuvre. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux Arts. Grenoble, 1989, pp. 288-289, no. 252 (ill.). [dated as ca. 1647-1650]

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Laurent de La Hyre, The Finding of Moses, between 1647 and 1650, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman H. Mopper, 71.30.