About the Painting

Joseph Recognized by His Brothers

by: Anne-Louis Girodet

Joseph reconnu par ses frères (Joseph Recognized by His Brothers) is a celebrated oil painting by the French Neoclassical and early Romantic painter Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson. The painting illustrates the emotional, climactic biblical story from the Book of Genesis where Joseph, now a powerful viceroy in Egypt, reveals his true identity to the brothers who had previously sold him into slavery.

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