Barend Fabritius
Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael
165849.5 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
Other works by Barent Fabritius
The blind Tobit
The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael
Self portrait as a shepherd
Woman with a Child in Swaddling Clothes
c. 1646
c. 1646
Self portrait as Saint John
c. 1660
c. 1660