BEZIEHUNG
im Künstler
im Museum
Der Engel erscheint Hagar und Ismael
um 1640
London, National Gallery, Saal 32 (Inventar-Nr. NG6621)
Ikonographie: Hagar (ägyptische Magd Saras), Ismael
The Angel appears to Hagar and Ishmael
Hagar was the Egyptian maidservant of Sara who, unable to conceive, gave Hagar to her husband Abraham to bear him a child. After miraculously giving birth to Isaac, Sara banished Hagar and her son Ishmael to the wilderness where, dying of thirst, they were saved by an angel who pointed Hagar to a source of water (Genesis 16: 21).
