The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael
Artist
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Dutch, 1621–1674
Date1666
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions21 3/4 x 27 1/8 in. (55.2 x 68.9 cm)
Frame: 29 3/8 x 34 7/8 x 3 in. (74.6 x 88.6 x 7.6 cm)
Frame: 29 3/8 x 34 7/8 x 3 in. (74.6 x 88.6 x 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.39
On View
Not on view[1] Date inscribed on a label on the verso of the canvas, in the hand of Count G. Stroganoff
[2] According to Vardui Kalpakcian (e-mail correspondence 6.8.2021): After the death of Count G.S.Stroganoff in 1910 almost all of his collection remained in the Palazzo Stroganoff in Rome, but his daughter during her rare visits to Rome was always assaulted by those who wanted to buy 'Stroganoff pieces' and she sold some pieces before 1914 (the NCMA painting is not listed in these sales). During WWI the Palazzo Stroganoff was closed and guarded by the consul of the Russian Empire. In the 1920s the surviving heirs reached Rome and the palace immediately began to be emptied out, without any documentaion of the sales. The first to be sold were the Italian paintings, the Dutch, Flamish and Northern European were not so popular, so their turn came in the 2nd half of 1920s. So we can suppose that until the 1920s this picture was still at the Palazzo.
Published ReferencesJean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun, Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandaise et allemands ouvrage enrichi de…(Paris: l’Auteur: Poignant; Amsterdam: Pierre Fouquet junior…1792–1796), Vol. 2., illus (b/w) following p. 10.
Catalogue of the collection of paintings of the late J. Lyversberg Esq. of Cologne, to be sold at Cologne on August 16, 1837, no. 59, as Hagar expelled.
A. von Würzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexicon, Vol. 1 (Vienna: 1906), no. 23.
Н.Врангель и А.Трубников. Картины собрания графа Г.С.Строганова в Риме [Baron N.Wrangel et A.Troubnikoff: Les tableaux de la collection du comte G.Stroganoff à Rome], Старые годы [Starye gody"/"Old Times"] (St. Petersburg, March 1909), 130-131.
Antonio Muñoz, Pièces de Choix de la Collection du Comte Grègoire Stroganoff, Seconde partie: Moyen-Age-Renaissance Èpoque Moderne (Rome, 1912), 82, illus b/w pl. 63.
Otto H. Förster, Kölner Kunstsammler vom Mittelalter bis zum Ende des Bürgerlichen Zeitalters (Berlin: Verlag von Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1931).
Richard Hamann, "Hagar's Abschied bei Rembrandt und im Rembrandt-Kreise," Sonderdruck aus dem Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschafft 8/9 (Marburg: Kunstwissenschaft, 1935 [between 1935-1976]), 15, 16, illus. fig. 21.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 46.
W. R. Valentiner, Rembrandt and His Pupils: A Loan Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), cat. no. 23 (in Pupils section).
May Davis Hill, "Representations from the Old Testament in the Museum's Collection of Paintings." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 2 (Summer, 1957), 9-11, illus. (b-w) 10.
E. Haverkamp - Begemann and Ann-Marie Logan, Rembrandt after Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), cat. no. 165, pp. 187-88, illus. no. 165, (related drawing) 243.
Rainer Roy, "Studien van den Eeckhout," Unpublished dissertation (Vienna, 1972), no. 7, pp. 90ff.
Albert Blankert, et al, Gods, Saints & Heroes: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1981), cat. no. 42.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 108.
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Vol. 2 (Landau/Pfalz: Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, 1983), 721, illus. (color) pl. 458.
Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), briefly discussed 5.
Peter Wirth, "A Man Given Promises," Biblical History: A Chronicle of Faith Through the Ages (1987), 26-33, illus. (color) 4.
Stephanie Dickey, "Met een wenende ziel...doch droge ogen," Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1995), 343, illus. 339.
Susanne Mädger, “Jakob Johann Nepomuk Lyversberg, Kaufmann und Kunstsammler,” in Lust und Verlust: Kölner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preussenadler (Köln: Wienand Verlag, 1995), listed 201.
Patrick De Rynck, Understanding Paintings: Bible Stories and Classical Myths in Art, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2009), briefly discussed, illus. and details (color), 19.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 15, illus. (color) 65.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Rembrandt and His Pupils: A Loan Exhibition," November 16-December 30, 1956, cat. no. 23 (in Pupils section).
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, "Old Masters and the Bible," 1965, cat. no. 8, illus.
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Gods, Saints and Heroes," November 2, 1980-January 4, 1981; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art, February 16-March 19, 1981; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, May 18-July 9, 1981, cat. no. 42.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, 'Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, briefly discussed 5.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Biblical Paintings/Rembrandt Etchings," October 13, 2002-January 5, 2003.
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