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image of The Finding of Moses
Sébastien Bourdon (artist)
French, 1616 - 1671
The Finding of Moses, c. 1655/1660
oil on canvas
overall: 119.6 x 172.8 cm (47 1/16 x 68 1/16 in.) framed: 161.3 x 209.6 x 8.6 cm (63 1/2 x 82 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.65
On View
From the Tour: Seventeenth-Century French Painting
Object 1 of 8
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 40, no. 11, repro.
1959Gottesman, Rita Susswein. "New York's First Major Art Show as Reviewed by its First Newspaper Critic in 1802 and 1803." New York Historical Society Quarterly. vol. 43 (July 1959): 289-305, repro.
1959Cooke, Hereward Lester. French Paintings of the 16th-18th Centuries in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Four in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 22, color repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 340, repro.
1964Rosenberg, Pierre. "Quelques tableaux inédits du XVIIe siècle français par Jacques Stella, Charles Mellin, Jean Tassel et Sébastien Bourdon." Art de France 4 (1964): 299, note 14.
1964Thuillier, Jacques, and Châtelet, Albert. French Painting from Le Nain to Fragonard. Geneva, 1964: 76, repro. 78.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 19.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 12, repro.
1970Fowle, Geraldine Elizabeth. "The Biblical Paintings of Sébastien Bourdon." Ph.D. diss., 2 vols., The University of Michigan, 1970: I:92-97, II:no. 5.
1970Rosenberg, Pierre, and Thuillier, Jacques. "The Finding of Moses by La Hyre." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 49, no. 2 (1970): 31, note 12.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 44, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 423, color repro.
1976Bjurström, Per. French Drawings: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Stockholm, 1976: under no. 173, note 3.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 289-290, fig. 257.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 317, no. 419, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 66, repro.
1985Wright, Christopher. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. New York, 1985: pl. 9.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 165, repro.
1995Merot, Alain. French Painting in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven and London, 1995: 139, color repro.
2009Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: no. 8, 44-48, color repro.

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