Pieter Lastman
Hagar and the Angel1614

Not on view

Oil painting of a winged angel hovering on a cloud above a seated woman in colorful robes, set in a rocky landscape with a small figure visible in the lower left

Artist or Maker: Pieter Lastman
Northern Netherlands, 1583-1633
Title: Hagar and the Angel
Date Made: 1614
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: 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
Accession Number: M.85.117
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
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. 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).
Selected Bibliography: 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.

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.

Pieter Lastman
Hagar and the Angel1614

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Pieter Lastman
Northern Netherlands, 1583-1633
Title: Hagar and the Angel
Date Made: 1614
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: 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
Accession Number: M.85.117
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
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. 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).
Selected Bibliography: 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.

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.