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Its weaving was part of an artistic programme intended to spread the theory of painting promoted by the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. The Moses series was the first at the Gobelins to be derived from oil paintings which were not specially designed for tapestry or radically adapted for this purpose.\r\n\r\nPoussin's painting of The Infant Moses Trampling on Pharoah's Crown, from which this tapestry is derived, was purchased by Louis XIV for the Cabinet du Roi (now in the Louvre). Its translation into a large-scale tapestry woven hanging enabled the appreciation of Poussin's work in a more ostentatious way suitable for court spectacle, incorporating expensive materials including gold thread in the weaving (the painting measured 92 x 128 cm, the tapestry 363 x 480 cm). 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