# Abraham and the Three Angels [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RESTOUT, Jean II]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm ## Commentary The subject of this picture is taken from the Old testament \(Gen. 18:1-19\). While Abraham sat at the tent door in the middle of the day three men appeared before him. Realizing that they were angels he bowed down before them, fetched water and washed their feet; then with the traditional hospitality of the nomad he brought them food. The angels prophesied that a son would be born to Abraham's wife Sarah. But Sarah laughed at the idea because by now they were old and 'well stricken by age'. However she afterwards bore Isaac so the prophecy was fulfilled. ## Related artworks - [Ananias Restoring the Sight of St Paul]() - [Pentecost \(detail\)]() - [Pentecost]() - [The Death of St Scholastica]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()