# Moses and the Brazen Serpent [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOURDON, Sébastien]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 105 x 89 cm ## Commentary Sébastien Bourdon represents the classicist and idealizing trend initiated by Nicolas Poussin, his contemporary and the leading French artist of the 17th century. Like Poussin, and like many other French and European artists, Bourdon made the obligatory study trip to Italy - to Rome, where he met Poussin, and to Venice, all of which influenced his style. In Venice he specialized in genre painting and in landscape in imitation of Claude Lorrain. Around 1640 he returned to France, and after some years in the service of Queen Christina of Sweden, he settled in Paris, where he acquired a great reputation. His painting of these French years shows its most obvious debt to Poussin. ## Related artworks - [A Scene from Roman History]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Bacchus and Ceres with Nymphs and Satyrs]() - [Countess Ebba Sparre]() - [Death of Dido]() - [Deposition from the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Deposition from the Cross]() - [King Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Presentation in the Temple]() - [Presumed Portrait of René Descartes]() - [Queen Christina of Sweden on Horseback]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()