DORE’S PICTURES.

Patea Mail, 7 December 1880, Page 4

DORE’S PICTURES.

M. Gustave Dorc is engaged upon a picture painted on a colossal scale, like the majority of his Scriptural subjects, and illustrating the text, “ Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden.” “ Moses in Egypt,” is a new painting by Dorc, now exhibited in London. It is an immense canvas, seventeen feet six inches high by twenty-six feet six inches long, and represents Moses before Pharaoh in the tenth plague of Egypt. The Eyptian king, surrounded by the members of his court and servants, is pictured standing at the entrance of his palace, on the summit of a flight of steps, and before him arc Moses and Aaron, whom he lias summoned to his presence in all haste, in order to bid them, with the children of Israel, got forth from among his people. Around are many prostrate forms—mothers stretched in agony of sorrow upon the ground, and near them the dead bodies of their firstborn, The conception of the subject shows grand imaginative power, and the grouping and arrangement of the figures are dramatically impressive, the splendour of Pharaoh and his followers in their magnificent costumes being in suggestive contrast to the sombrely clad figure of Moses.