# The Israelites at the Tomb of the Patriarch Joseph [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRANCKEN, Frans II]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 66 x 110 cm ## Commentary In this painting the artist has combined two important episodes from the Biblical story of the Israelites' flight out of Egypt and their return to the Promised Land. Having successfully crossed the Red Sea under the leadership of Moses, they watch while in the right distance the Pharaoh and his armies are destroyed when God engulfs them in the waters. In the centre of the composition, some of the Hebrews gather around the coffin of the patriarch Joseph, which lies open on the ground. ## Related artworks - [Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels, 25 October 1555,]() - [An Antique Dealer's Gallery]() - [Arcadia: a Pastoral Landscape]() - [Art Room \(detail\)]() - [Art Room]() - [Ballroom Scene at a Court in Brussels]() - [Christ in the Garden of Olives]() - [Croesus Showing his Riches to Solon]() - [Crucifixion of St Andrew]() - [Feast of Esther]() - [Sebastiaan Leerse in his Gallery]() - [Supper at the House of Burgomaster Rockox]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()