Minneapolis Institute of Art
Joseph and His Brethren, Genesis 41 (recto); Minor Sketches of Head and Figures (verso)
Lazzaro BaldiLinkedCulture matchlcp-59cd1ba177a8
- Date
- 17th century
- Medium
- Pen, brown ink, and blue gray wash, over a black chalk sketch
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 9452
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Lazzaro Baldi was among the most gifted pupils of the Baroque artist Pietro da Cortona. This expressive sheet suggests the events of Genesis 44. Joseph's brothers come to Egypt to buy grain, not recognizing the leader as Joseph. He knows them, however, and wants them to suffer for selling him into slavery 20 years earlier. Here Joseph sentences Jacob's young son Benjamin to a life of slavery, but a repentant Judah bows down and offers himself instead. At this, Joseph forgives all. Italy, Europe
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- Credit line
- Gift of David M. Daniels
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