Finding of Moses

Pieter Fransz. de Grebber studied under his father Frans Pietersz. de Grebber (1573-1643), a Haarlem painter and art dealer who became Rubens' agent for the English Ambassador to The Hague, Sir Dudley Carleton. The young De Grebber travelled with his father to Antwerp in 1618, where he almost certainly met Rubens, whose work had a profound effect on the young artist's early style. In 1632 De Grebber became master of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke and two years later, the date of the present work, moved into a house in the Beguinhof.

This subject was popular in Dutch art, indeed the most commonly depicted theme in the Moses story.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 5 minutes): Gioacchino Rossini: Moses, Moses' Prayer