# The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLOEMAERT, Abraham]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 150 x 184 cm ## Commentary The biblical story \(Genesis, chapter 21\) depicted in the paintings is the following. Hagar, the Egyptian hand maiden of Sarah was the mother of Ishmael, Abraham's first son. When Isaac, Sarah's son, was born Ishmael mocked his younger brother so that Sarah asked Abraham to banish him, together with his mother. Abraham provided them with bread and a bottle of water and sent them off into the desert of Beersheba. The biblical aspect in the painting is not the central focus of the painting, typically of Bloemaert's mature work. The viewer's first impression is that this is a genre scene of a contemporary farmyard. ## Related artworks - [A Cottage \(recto\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Winter]() - [Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children]() - [Charikleia and Theagenes]() - [Farmyard]() - [Farmyard with Dovecote]() - [Huntsman with Dogs]() - [Landscape with Peasants Resting]() - [Landscape with the Parable of the Tares among the Wheat]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()