# Abraham and Isaac [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COECKE VAN AELST, Pieter]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen, brown ink, black chalk, 235 x 386 mm ## Commentary The foreground of this drawing was executed in pen and ink, and the rest of it in black chalk. The main scene of the Old Testament story in which Isaac is about to be sacrificed on the hilltop is missing since it was painted over with wash imitating clouds either by the artist himself or someone else. ## Related artworks - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Altarpiece of the Passion]() - [Christ and His Disciples on Their Way to Emmaus]() - [Descent from the Cross]() - [Holy Trinity]() - [Last Supper]() - [The Triumph of Fame]() - [Triptych: Adoration of the Magi]() - [Triptych]() - [Triptych]() - [Triptych with the Lamentation]() - [Turkish Sultan before the Hippodrome \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()