Infant Moses Tramples on Pharaoh’s Crown – Poussin

This image by N. Poussin portrays how, even as a child raised in the court of Pharaoh, Moses was destined to challenge the Pharaoh’s unjust rule and lead the Israelites from their Egyptian captivity.

Moses Trampling on Pharaoh’s Crown (ca. 1642-47)

“Some light is thrown on Poussin’s relation to ancient art by the use he makes of architecture in his paintings of the 1640’s and later.  When possible, he bases his buildings on models which he found around him in Rome.  In the background of the Bedford Moses Trampling on Pharaoh’s Crown, for instance, there appears the wall of a temple  articulated with Ionic half-columns, which corresponds exactly with the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome; but this building is rare in being almost completely preserved, and in many cases Poussin is forced to use reconstructions of ancient monuments available in earlier writers on architecture.”

https://www.rct.uk/collection/911885/the-infant-moses-trampling-pharaohs-crown

This episode is not recounted in the Old Testament, being derived instead from the Roman antiquary Flavius Josephus (Antiquitates, II, 9, 7): Moses was adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, who had found him in the bulrushes.

https://northsidedrive.org/not-that-kind-of-baptist/trampling-pharaohs-crown/

Till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest. The Lord’s justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field. The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.  

Is 32:15–17