4220 - after Adriaen van der Werff, ‘The Expulsion of Hagar’

after Adriaen van der Werff, ‘The Expulsion of Hagar’ An illustration of the Old Testament story of Abraham and Sarah, a couple who had long remained childless; at Sarah’s request, her husband Abraham fathered a son named Ishmael with Sarah’s maidservant Hagar; when Sarah later became pregnant by Abraham and gave birth to her son Isaac, she persuaded Abraham to cast out Hagar and Ishmael - which is depicted in this painting, a glazed copy after the painting ‘The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael’ by Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722), which is held in the Dresden State Art Collections’ ‘Gallery of Old Masters’, oil on canvas, c. 1900, signed ‘CZ’ lower right; various annotations on the back of the stretcher, such as ‘Mrs Geheimrath Zimmermann, Schubertstr. 37’ and ‘Hermann von Mutter 1908’; signs of age; in a gilded stucco frame. Inner dimensions (including mount): approx. 87.5 x 69.5 cm.