Moses Drawing Water from the Rock, 1699 – 1700

Blatt: 284 x 250 mm

Physical Description: Pen and brush in brown over graphite

Inventory Number: 3983

Object Number: 3983 Z

Status: On display, Department of Prints and Drawings Exhibition Gallery

Texts

About the Work

It was only a few years ago that a connection was drawn between this work and a commission for the Carthusian Monastery in Calci near Pisa. At God’s behest, Moses strikes water from a rock to quench the thirst of the Israelites on their exodus from Egypt. The people’s desperation is strikingly expressed in their beseeching gestures and one man’s greedy raising of a bottle to his lips.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Moses Drawing Water from the Rock

Draughtsman

Giuseppe Maria Roli attributed

Period Produced

17th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Pen and brush in brown over graphite

Material

Technique

Production Reason

Captions Added Later: Bezeichnet unten rechts (mit der Feder in Braun): Burrini [?]; auf der Rückseite (auf dem Auflagekarton) unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356); bezeichnet unten rechts (mit Bleistift): # 5 [...?]