Hagar and the Angel
Artist: Francesco Maffei (Italian, 1605–1660)
Original Dimensions: 41 3/4" x 54"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1657) "Maffei lived and worked in the Italian cities of Vicenza and Padua, but was profoundly influenced by Venetian painting. At its most characteristic, his elegant vision veers into the mannered elongated figure types and loose brushwork seen in this painting above the doorway. This scene from the biblical book of Genesis shows the angel appearing to Hagar, an enslaved woman in Egypt. Banished with her infant Ishmael to the desert by her new husband, Abraham, Hagar was allegedly saved by a heavenly creature who directed her to a spring of water." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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