Abraham Bloemaert – Moses Striking the Rock – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435680
In Bloemaert’s version of the Old Testament subject (Exod. 17:1–6), the children of Israel march out of Egypt either naked or provocatively dressed, and weighed down with earthenware pots, copper-lined cookware, and, in the arms of the young woman at center, a silver-gilt ewer dating from the late sixteenth century
That graceful figure’s prominence led Broos (1990) to suggest that the artist’s subject
