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Description: | This work depicts an episode described in the Old Testament, popular among artists and patrons of the seventeenth century, when Hagar and her son Ishmael are expelled from the house of Abraham at the behest of Abraham's wife, Sara. Hagar had been the Egyptian maidservant of Sara, with whose blessing she had conceived Ishmael with Abraham. She fell from favour after Sara miraculously gave birth to Isaac (Genesis 21. 9-14). The size and composition of the work suggests that it may once have formed part of a series of Old Testament images. | Subjects: | religion (Hagar and Ishmael) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Tintoretto, Jacopo (Italian painter, 1519-1594) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8836... | Go to resource |
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