Hagar and the Angel

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Hagar and the Angel

1614
Paintings
Oil on wood panel
Panel: 20 × 26 7/8 in. (50.8 × 68.26 cm) Framed: 27 1/2 × 34 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (69.85 × 87 × 3.81 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by The Ahmanson Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Resnick, Anna Bing Arnold, Dr. Armand Hammer, and Edward Carter in honor of Kenneth Donahue (M.85.117)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

[Art trade, Nice, France, sold ca. 1970 to];(1) [Didier Aaron, Paris, owned with Frederick Mont, New York, sold 1976 to]; Mr. and Mrs.

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[Art trade, Nice, France, sold ca. 1970 to];(1) [Didier Aaron, Paris, owned with Frederick Mont, New York, sold 1976 to]; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Solomon, Bevelry Hills (sale, New York, Sotheby's, 6 June 1985, lot 76, sold to); LACMA.

Footnote

(1) According to Alan Salz, Didier Aaron & Cie, New York, in a letter dated 9 June 2000, Olivier Aaron found the painting in the kitchen of a small dealer in Nice, France, but he does not remember his identity (Lastman object file, Department of European Painting and Sculpture, LACMA).

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Bibliography

  • Seifert, Christian Tico. Pieter Lastman: Studien zu Leben und Werk: mit einem kritischen Verzeichnis der Werke mit Themen aus der antiken Mythologie und Historie. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2011.
  • Seifert, Christian Tico. Pieter Lastman: Studien zu Leben und Werk: mit einem kritischen Verzeichnis der Werke mit Themen aus der antiken Mythologie und Historie. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2011.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 3, Dutch Painting, Flemish Painting, Spanish Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.


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