Hagar and the Angel at the Well on the Way to Shur, Ferdinand Bol, c. 1640

Title(s)

Hagar and the Angel at the Well on the Way to Shur

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1930-27

Artist

• draughtsman: Ferdinand Bol
• draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn (rejected attribution)

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

c. 1640

Physical features

pen and brown ink, with brown wash; framing line in brown ink

Material

• paper
• ink

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 182 mm × width 233 mm

What

• an angel meets Hagar at the fountain on the way to Shur and persuades her to return

Credit line

• Gift of C. Hofstede de Groot, The Hague

Acquisition

gift 1930

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Oude tekeningen, nieuwe namen : Rembrandt en tijdgenoten, Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt, Leonore van Sloten, p. 31, afb. 1c
• Drawings of the Rembrandt School, Werner Sumowski, Walter L. Strauss, p. 202, cat.nr. 89
• Teekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn school [1943], Max Dittmar Henkel, p. 64, cat.nr. 1