Moses's spring water miracle

Title

Moses's spring water miracle

Draughtsman

• Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ?

Period Produced

• 17th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• chalk
• paper

Technique

• chalk drawing
• decalcomania?
• primary coat

Geographic Reference

• Genoese

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• copy

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert unten rechts (von fremder Hand?, mit grauem Stift): Benj: Castiglione fecit

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet auf dem Montierungsbogen unten mittig (mit der Feder in in Braun): No. 133.
Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1930

Genre

• historical narration
• Biblical portrayal

Persons Shown

• Moses

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Altes Testament

Primary

• 71E1263 Moses strikes the rock twice in front of the assembled people and water gushes out; the people quench their thirst

Alternative Attribution

• Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione draughtsman; declined, by verbal note