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Moses Shown the Promised Land
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum

Moses Shown the Promised Land

1801
Benjamin West visual detail
ArtistBenjamin West
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $12,000 Dealer sale · Jul 30, 1969
+1,042.9% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1965 · $1,0501969 · $12,000
$1K1965
$12K1969
Last known price$12,0002 matched observed sales
Observed median$6,525
Observed sales2
Artist index480.0
1969-07-30Dealer sale$12,000.00
1965-09-16Dealer purchase$1,050.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 480.0 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
General Thaddeus Kosciusko
1797 · oil paint, panel
1946-06-01—$2,500.0049%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public
No rights-cleared provenance evidence is published.

Exhibitions

Public
No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.
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Sourced Overview Evidence

In London, West taught three generations of visitingAmerican artists, advancing both the Neoclassical and the Romantic styles. He was engaged for three decades in the massive decorative scheme for a Chapel of Revealed Religion that his kingly patron, George III, wished to erect at Windsor Castle. Although West completed more than thirty-five pictures, the project was eventually abandoned. The Museum’s oil sketch is probably a study for a large painting destined for the cycle, in which Moses was to play an important role. The shaft of light cutting diagonally through the Baroque composition symbolizes God’s revelation to Moses of the promised land he was to see but never enter himself.

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 1 comparable sales · 0 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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