Abraham Casting Out Hagar

1603

Jacob Matham, after Abraham Bloemaert

Associated Names
Jacob Matham

Artist, Dutch, 1571 - 1631

Abraham Bloemaert

Artist After, Dutch, 1566 - 1651

The image shows an engraving portraying a scene from a raised perspective. Various elements like leafy plants, a ladder, farm equipment, two figures in historical attire, a wooden house with a thatched roof, birds in flight, and silhouettes of structures and trees are depicted in rich detail. The use of intricate lines and shading creates texture and depth in the grayscale composition.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.561

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 2, State i/iv

Artwork history & notes

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

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

Inscriptions

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.

Wikidata ID

Q76557183

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