Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters

Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters (c. 1523–1524) by Rosso Fiorentino

Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters is a c.1523-1524 oil on canvas painting attributed to Rosso Fiorentino, now in the Uffizi in Florence, which acquired it in 1632.^[1] It depicts Moses defending the seven daughters of Jethro, his father-in-law.

Vasari's Lives of the Artists states the work was produced for as "a canvas with some very handsome ignudi in a story [from the life] of Mose, when he loved in Egypt ... and I believe it was commissioned in France".^[2] The work was then sent to Francis I of France around 1530^[3] It was already in the Casino di San Marco by 1587 among the goods of don Antonio de' Medici. It was first connected to the reference in Vasari by Gaetano Milanesi^[4] It is unclear if the original work was sent to France or (as Antonio Natali theorises) a faithful copy.^[5]

Rebecca at the Well by the same artist

References[]

^ "Catalogue entry".
^ (in Italian) Gloria Fossi, Uffizi, Giunti, Firenze 2004. ISBN 88-09-03675-1
^ (in Italian) Elisabetta Marchetti Letta, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Scala, Firenze 1994. ISBN 88-8117-028-0
^ Fossi, cit.
^ (in Italian) Antonio Natali, Rosso Fiorentino, Silvana Editore, Milano 2006. ISBN 88-366-0631-8

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[1] "Catalogue entry".

[2] (in Italian) Gloria Fossi, Uffizi, Giunti, Firenze 2004. ISBN 88-09-03675-1

[3] (in Italian) Elisabetta Marchetti Letta, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Scala, Firenze 1994. ISBN 88-8117-028-0

[4] Fossi, cit.

[5] (in Italian) Antonio Natali, Rosso Fiorentino, Silvana Editore, Milano 2006. ISBN 88-366-0631-8

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