About the Artwork
The Finding of Moses
between 1647 and 1650
Laurent de La Hyre
1606-1656
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
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)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman H. Mopper
71.30
Public Domain
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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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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.
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