Barend Fabritius

Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael



Barend Fabritius - Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael



Barend Fabritius
Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael
1658
49.5 x 35.6 cm
Oil on wood
Signed and dated, bottom center: BFabritius (BF in monogram, with B reversed) / 1658
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 557

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 45


Provenance

?Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (possibly acting as agent for Chambers)
?Sir William Chambers, London, Hampton Court, and Whitton Place, near Hounslow, until died 1796
by descent to George Chambers
Chambers family
Miss E.M. Chambers, until 1957, sold to Leger
with Leger, London, 1957, sold to Kleinberger
with Kleinberger, New York, 1957–75, bequeathed by Harry G. Sperling, last surviving partner of firm, to MMA


External links

RKD 58226
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1976.100.23

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