Cincinnati Art Museum, USA
Abraham driving out Hagar and Ishmael
- Oil on canvas
- 50 ½ × 40 ½ inches · 1285 × 1030 mm
- Signed and dated on the wall on the left: ‘Angelica Kauffman. Pinxit Roma. 1792’
In its original carved Roman frame
Collections
- Marchesa Polissena Turinetti di Priero, commissioned from the artist for 150 Zecchini, paid for on 12th June 1793;
- Turinetti di Priero family, Turin, by descent;
- Filippo Giordano delle Lanze, purchased from the above before 1968;
- Private collection, Italy until 2019
Exhibitions
- To be included in the forthcoming Angelica Kauffman exhibition at Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast 30 January – 24 May 2020 and London, Royal Academy of Arts, 25 June – 20 September 2020.
Literature
- Lady Victoria Manners and G. C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffman RA. Her Life and Works, London, 1924, p.162;
- V. Natale, Roma Torino Parigi, 1770-1830, exh. cat., Turin, 1993, pp. 28-29;
- Francesco Mazzocca, in L’ideale classico, arte in Italia tra Neoclassicismo e Romanticismo, 2002, pp. 529 and 557;
- Laura Facchin, Bartolomeo Cavalleri agente dell’aristocrazia sabauda a Roma, in 'Rivista della Biblioteca di Storia e Cultura del Piemonte Giuseppe Grosso', VII, 2004, pp.9-43;
- Laura Facchin, ‘L’attività per una clientele cosmopolita: Angelica Kauffman a Roma’, Arte e Storia, XXXV, 2007, pp.282-297, reproduced in black and white p.228;
- Laura Facchin, ‘Angelica Kauffmann: Tracce per i rapport tra la pittrice svizzera e l’ambiente fiorentino nella seconda metà del XVIII sec.’, in Arte e Storia, XLVIII, 2010, pp.198-211
