Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael

Little Ishmael cries as his father, Abraham, tells him and his mother Hagar to leave the house. Abraham's pregnant wife Sarah turns her back on the scene; it is she who insisted that Abraham sends away the slave woman and her son.

This is the second time Hagar is sent off into the desert. When she was pregnant with Ishmael, barren Sarah dismissed her because she suspected her of contempt.