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)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.39

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ProvenanceCreated Amsterdam, 1666. Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun (1748–1813), Paris, by 1792. Boleslaw Potocki (1805-1896), Castle Nemyrov, Podolia (present day Ukraine]. Jakob Joannes Nepomuk Lyversberg (1761–1834), Cologne, Germany; [his sale, Cologne, August 16, 1837, no. 59, as Hagar expelled]; Count Gregoire Stroganoff (1829–1910), Rome, by 1891-1910 [1]; probably Stroganoff collection, Rome until the 1920s [2]. [Schaeffer Galleries, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[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.