The Destruction of Pharaoh's Army
A robed figure raises a staff toward a dark, stormy sky while a sea churns over rocks below. Companions in turbans and cloaks cling to the cliff, leaning into the wind under a shaft of light. Oil on canvas, painted in a dramatic Romantic manner.
- Artist
- Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, II
- Date
- 1792
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 2106 px
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by the Old Masters Society, Mrs. P. Kelley Armour and Mr. and Mrs. William B. Graham through the Old Masters Society; gift of Richard L. Feigen; Alexander A. McKay, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Patterson and Mr. and Mrs. Murray Vale endowments; through prior acquisitions of Max and Leola Epstein, William O. and Erna Sawyer Goodman Fund through Friends of American Art, Mrs. Robert Hall McCormick in memory of Robert Hall McCormick, and Dellora A. Norris
