Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis is an oil painting by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), first exhibited in 1843.

[1] Made during the latter years of Turner's career, this painting depicts the aftermath of the Great Flood story told in the Book of Genesis.

This piece also illustrates Turner's belief in God's omnipotence as it is He who creates the flood, allows Noah to survive, and inspired Moses to write the Book of Genesis.

[3] For most of his career Turner, whose works are predominantly subjective, was recognised for his watercolour and oil paintings that reflected landscape images and scenes of natural entities such as the weather, the ocean, the effect of light, and vision.

As expressed in the title of the painting, Turner found interest in Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's book, Theory of Colours also known as Zur Farbenlehre, published in 1810.

[7] The form of the painting is circular, symbolising the construction of the human eye, changing the focus of a typical linear splitting of space to a more subjective portrayal.