The Prophet Moses: a porcelain Easter egg, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St Petersburg, 1830s-40s

Philippe de Champaigne's The Prophet Moses (1648) is now in the collection of the State Hermitage (inv. no. ERF 5516). The painting was acquired by the museum in 1808, having previously been in the collection of Choisel-Pralein in Paris. It was then engraved by Edelinck and I.A. Bersenev.

For a comparative egg, please see T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 98, no. 60.