# The Finding of Moses I [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POUSSIN, Nicolas]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 94 x 121 cm ## Commentary The figure of the Pharaoh's daughter Thermutis, leaning against her maid as she instructs her companions to attend to the infant Moses rescued from the Nile, is taken from an earlier painting by Poussin, the Theseus Finding His Father's Sword of c. 1635. In the latter painting Aithra, Theseus's mother is supported by a female servant. ## Related artworks - [A Bacchic Scene]() - [A Dance to the Music of Time]() - [A Roman Road]() - [A Sacrifice]() - [Acis and Galatea]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Apollo and the Muses \(Parnassus\)]() - [Armida Carrying off Rinaldo]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()