- Reproduction
- Object number18
- Record typesingle object
- Catalog (number)Bartsch: B30-1(1)
New Hollstein Dutch: NHD166-1(1) - Object name
- TitleAbraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael
- Creator
- Production date1637
- Technique
- Material
- Dimensions
- plate height: 125 mm
plate width: 95 mm - Inscriptionsignature and date - u.r.
Rembrandt/ f 1637
- Accompanying textWhen Sarah bore a son at an advanced age she compelled her husband Abraham to banish Hagar, his concubine, and her son Ishmael into the desert. The dramatic moment of Hagar's departure was a particularly popular subject with Rembrandt and his pupils.
- AcquisitionK.S. Gottstein, Vienna, sale 1925 (L suppl 1169bis). Bequest of I. de Bruyn, 1962.
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