03 — ARTWORK
The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 150 x 184 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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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 genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. scene of a contemporary farmyard.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael by BLOEMAERT, Abraham},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bloemaert-abraham-rcb490160a07500/the-expulsion-of-hagar-and-ishmael-r9e92a14cf1e362},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
