Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters
Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters is a c.1523-1524 oil on canvas painting attributed to Rosso Fiorentino, now in the Uffizi in Florence, which acquired it in 1632. It depicts Moses defending the seven daughters of Jethro, his father-in-law.
Vasari's Lives of the Artists states the work was produced for Giovanni Bandini as "a canvas with some very handsome ignudi in a story of Mose, when he loved in Egypt... and I believe it was commissioned in France". The work was then sent to Francis I of France around 1530 It was already in the Casino di San Marco by 1587 among the goods of don Antonio de' Medici. It was first connected to the reference in Vasari by Gaetano Milanesi It is unclear if the original work was sent to France or a faithful copy.
