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The Gathering of Manna
1637–39 · huile sur toile (oil on canvas) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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A woman in yellow gives her breast to an old woman lying on the ground, while a small child waits beside her. Le Brun read her as Charity, feeding her mother before her own child, and set against her two men who fight, proportioned after the Medici Wrestlers, too violent and selfish to see the manna spread underfoot. The Louvre notes that Poussin made the manna fall like snow, after Josephus rather than the plainer biblical text, and reads the pierced rock at the left as Christ. Poussin wrote to Jacques Stella that he had found a distribution of attitudes, and on 28 April 1639 asked that the story and the painting be read together. Around her, nearly everyone is bending for bread.
Sources: Musée du Louvre, 'La Manne' (The Israelites Gathering the Manna in the Desert), INV 7275. · Commission history, dossier citing Anthony Blunt's catalogue raisonné (Phaidon) · 1 Corinthians 10:3-4, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:15 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)