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Abraham en Hagar

After Sarah demands it, Abraham sends Hagar and the boy Ishmael away into the wilderness with bread and a skin of water (Genesis 21). By the Dutch printmaker Crispijn van de Passe, held in the Rijksmuseum.

Abraham en Hagar by Crispijn van de Passe depicting Genesis 21
View full resolutionPublic domain via Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-P-1922-303.Source

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Portrait of Crispijn van de Passe

About Crispijn van de Passe

1564-1637 · Dutch

Crispijn van de Passe the Elder was a Dutch engraver and founder of a four-generation dynasty of printmakers; his biblical series — including the Liber Genesis and Life of Christ — circulated across Protestant and Catholic Europe alike.