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Abraham Repudiating Hagar and Ishmael

(Netherlandish, last quarter of the 15th century)
about 1475–1500
Medium/TechniqueMetalpoint, extensively reworked with pen and brown ink, figures silhouetted and mounted to another sheet
DimensionsSheet: 19.5 x 12.5 cm (7 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession number15.1244
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceCollection of Eugène Rodrigues (Louis Marie Eugène Rodrigues Henriques, Paris, 1853–1928), lawyer and president of the Société des Cent Bibliophiles [Lugt 897]; his sale, Paris, March 7, 1900; Walter Gay (1856–1937), American painter born in Hingham, Massachusetts and active in Paris; purchased through Gay by the MFA, December 2, 1915