Oil on canvas. Neapolitan school of the 17th century.
The painting, already attributed to Scipione Compagno (1624 - 1680), falls precisely into his pictorial ways (also typical of the genre of narrative images typical of seventeenth-century Neapolitan culture), which describe scenes and events with innumerable figures, landscapes and views described with a palette of brown and brown colours, except for the flashes of color that mark the salient characters of the scenes.
The scene, full of figures, sees in the foreground the Egyptian army overwhelmed by the waters of the Red Sea, while on the shore in the background the Israelite people, now safe, observe and celebrate with dances and songs; in the rearmost centre, Moses standing holds his arm with his staff raised, in the gesture that evoked the miracle of the parting of the waters.
The painting was previously restored in ancient times. It currently has a slight loss of color on the left.
It is presented in a late 19th century frame.
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PLATINUM Seller in Milano, Italy
