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Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri): Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael

Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) 1591 – 1666

Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael

oil on canvas (115 × 154 cm) — 1657
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

This work is linked to Genesis 21:14

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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.

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