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Description: | This landscape by Lord George Haddo (1816-1864) is a copy of Claude Lorrain's 1646 Landscape with Hagar and the Angel (National Gallery, London), probably based on one of the engravings of Claude's compositions in his Liber Veritatis which was widely circulated through engravings. Taken from the Biblical story, the servant Hagar, pregnant by her mistress Susannah's husband, has run away. An angel has just found her and points her towards a distant village, where Susannah is encouraging her to return, and prophesying that her unborn child will one day found a great nation. Claude's painting is typical of early classical landscapes; it follows artistic conventions such as trees framing the composition, figures arranged in the foreground, evidence of human activity (exemplified here by the village and bridge in the background) and specific tones and colours used to convey distance. | Subjects: | figure; landscape; religion (Hagar and the Angel) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Haddo, Lord George (British artist, 1816-1864) Æ After Lorrain, Claude (French painter and draftsman, 1604-1682, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8568... | Go to resource |
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