Hagar in the Wilderness

Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Artist| Camille Corot
Year| 1835
Medium| Oil on canvas
Dimensions| 180.3 cm × 270.5 cm (71.0 in × 106.5 in)
Location| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession| 38.64

Hagar in the Wilderness is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Camille Corot, created in 1835. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]

## Description

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The painting depicts the biblical figure Hagar as she wanders through the wilderness of Beersheba. Specifically, the painting renders the moment in which Hagar and her son Ishmael experience divine salvation, seen via Corot's inclusion of an angel in the back center of the painting. Much of the landscape seen in the work is derived from Corot's earlier nature studies.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Hagar in the Wilderness". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-05-02.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Paintings|

* The Bridge at Narni (1826)
* Castel Sant'Angelo and the Tiber, Rome (1826-1828)
* The Cathedral of Chartres (1830)
* Forest of Fontainebleau (1834)
* Hagar in the Wilderness (1835)
* Diana and Actaeon (1836)
* View of Volterra (1838)
* View of Venice: The Piazzetta Seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni (c. 1835-1845)
* The Harbor of La Rochelle (1851)
* Le Concert Champêtre (1858)
* The Repose (1860)
* Gitane au tambourin (c. 1862)
* Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864)
* Ville-d'Avray (1865)
* A Woman Reading (1869)
* Sibylle (c. 1870)

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* Achille Etna Michallon (master)
* Jean-Victor Bertin (master)
* Marie-Françoise Corot (mother)
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