# Moses Striking the Rock [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLOEMAERT, Abraham]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 80 x 108 cm ## Commentary This painting with a graceful young woman in the centre, shows a frenzied eroticism. The density of the composition, with its balletic interplay of poses and gestures, is in the spirit of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/w/wtewael/sebastia.html'\)" href="/html/w/wtewael/sebastia.html">Joachim Wtewael,</a> Bloemaert's contemporary in Utrecht. The composition is an original invention inspired by an eclectic survey of recent Dutch Mannerist forms. ## Related artworks - [A Cottage \(recto\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Winter]() - [Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children]() - [Charikleia and Theagenes]() - [Farmyard]() - [Farmyard with Dovecote]() - [Huntsman with Dogs]() - [Landscape with Peasants Resting]() - [Landscape with the Parable of the Tares among the Wheat]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()