17th CENTURY FLEMISH COLLECTION Hagar driven from... Lot 44

17th CENTURY FLEMISH COLLECTION Hagar driven from Abraham's house Canvas. 52.5 x 67 cm. The scene is taken from Genesis (XXI, 9-21). Ishmael was Abraham's first son, born of Hagar, his wife Sarah's Egyptian servant. Sarah asked Abraham to expel the child and his mother. The patriarch exiled them to the desert of Beer-Sheba, where they were about to die of thirst when an angel appeared to point out a spring.