Ancient oil painting on canvas depicting "The finding of the cup stolen in the sack of Benjamin". Period 19th century.
Description: Ancient oil painting on canvas depicting the discovery of the cup stolen from Benjamin's sack. Having found his brothers, who had sold him as a slave many years earlier, Joseph, without being recognized, fills them with gifts and asks them to return to Egypt with his father and younger brother because he wishes to reunite his family in the land where he became one of the most important officials of the pharaoh. But since on the next trip they show up with little Benjamin but not with his father Jacob, Joseph is forced to devise a plan to get what he wants. He therefore has the sovereign's silver cup hidden in the sack of Benjamin, in