Artist: William West
Date: 1845
Museum: Bristol Museum - Art Gallery (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
The departure of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt is told in the Old Testament book of Exodus. God guided them at night with the light from a pillar of fire. West painted a dramatic night scene, with the light streaming down on tiny figures of Moses and the Israelites. By 1845, such an epic treatment of a biblical subject was old-fashioned and it is the last of the Bristol School
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