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Joseph being sold by his brothers
(c. 1710)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
112.0 × 156.7 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1955
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Francesco Trevisani here has created an episodic scene that simultaneously shows three phases of the Old Testament account of Joseph, son of Jacob, being sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Emerging from the forest on the left are the merchants who buy Joseph; in the centre he is being lifted from the pit where his brothers held him; and on the right the exchange of twenty pieces of silver takes place. Trevisani set this scene in a Classical-inspired landscape, a reference to his main sources of inspiration, the sixteenth-century masters Correggio and Annibale Carracci.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint c.l.: F. T.
Accession Number
3209-4
Department
International Painting
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