BREU, Jörg the Younger
(b. ca. 1510, Augsburg, d. 1547, Augsburg)

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh (detail)

1537-47
Distemper on linen
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This unfinished painting represents a trio of episodes from the story of the Old Testament patriarch Joseph as told in the Genesis. It shows two scenes: Joseph escaping Potiphar's wife (above) and Potiphar's wife falsely accusing Joseph (below).