Lot 32: ROGER GUIBOURGE

PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER WITH THE INFANT MOSES
signed R. Guibourge to the base

figure height 4 ft. 11 in., the original pedestal 35 1/4 in. 149.9, 89.5

white carrara marble

This sculptural group is a direct artistic interpretation of The Finding of Moses (Exodus. 2:1-10). Fearful of the Israelites' growing number in Egypt, the Pharaoh ordered all the male infants put to death. To save her child, Moses's mother placed him in an ark of bulrushs in the Nile and he was found by Pharaoh's daughter who had gone to the river to bathe.