Abraham Casting Out Hagar, 1603

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 46.5 x 36 cm (18 5/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

sheet: 47 x 36 cm (18 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 2, State i/iv

Accession Number

2012.92.561

Artists / Makers

Jacob Matham (artist) Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Abraham Bloemaert (artist after) Dutch, 1566 - 1651

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, at bottom right: Cum privil. Sa. Cae. M. / Abrahamus Bloemaert Inven. I. Maetham Sculp. / et excudit Ao, 1603; below image: Dum petulans Dominae non insultare veretur, / Cum nato Iussa est vertere serva solum. / Sic, Christo, Christique gregi dum illudere Certant, Iudaeos meritò par quoque paena premit. SHS; below image, at left: Gen. XXI; below image, at centre: Rupert. in Gen.

Provenance

Pierre Mariette [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1789). Nicola Francesco Haym or N. Hillier? (Lugt 1972/Lugt 1974). George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer [1758-1834], Althorp (Lugt 2341a). (Artemis Fine Arts Limited, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 24, 1986; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Haym, Nicola Francesco
Hillier, N.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mariette, Pierre II
Spencer, George John, 2nd earl Spencer

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 2, i/ii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 2, i/iv