The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael
possibly Emil Karl August Böhm (München 1873 - 1958)
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1883 - circa 1958
Materials
Enamel
Measurements
545 x 465 mm; 470 mm (Height); 385 mm (Width)
Place of origin
Berlin
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 513479
Summary
Painted enamel plaque, The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael, possibly Emil Karl August Böhm (München 1873 - 1958), after Adriaen van der Werff (Kralinger Ambach 1659 - Rotterdam 1722). Berlin porcelain plaque by E. Bohm. The original painting is in the Gemaldegalerie, Dresden. According to the biblical story told in Genesis 21:14, Abraham, as an elderly man, seen in flowing blue robe, expelled Hagar and their son, Ishmael, from his home. She is seen with her head away from the viewer with her child leaving, to the right towards the landscape in the right background. Sarah, his wife, stands beside the pillars in the left background with another child, Isaac, their son, standing behind Abraham almost hiding under his red robe but offering his cloak to Ishmael, his older step-brother. Abraham's hands are raised in rejection but his face displays a glimmer of regret. Black painted frame.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Makers and roles
possibly Emil Karl August Böhm (München 1873 - 1958), artist after Adriaen van der Werff (Kralingen 1659 - Rotterdam 1722), artist