A drawing of a crowd of kneeling people, bowed down before and gesturing towards Moses, who stands to the right holding the Tablets Having descended Mount Sinai, Moses shows the tablets bearing the Ten Commandments to the Israelites; the Golden Calf, the object of their worship while the Prophet was absent, is visible in the left background. Here Castiglione is starting to free himself from a slavish adherence to the rigours of the Roman Grand Manner, and he marries a serious subject with a lighter, more open composition.