Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters

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.

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

Vasari's Lives of the Artists states the work was produced for Giovanni Bandini 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
  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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