Lot 43: Lorenzo Lippi , Florence 1606 - 1665 Hagar and Ishmael in the desert oil on canvas

oil on canvas

measurements note 91.6 by 148.8 cm.; 36 by 58 1/2 in.

Svenska slott och herresaten vid 1900-talets borjan, Ostergotland, Stockholm 1909, p. 161.

Castle Allono, Ostergotland;
Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Stockholms Auktionsverk, 1 June 2006, lot 2437, where acquired by the present owner.

PROPERTY FROM THE LONDON RESIDENCE OF LUIGI KOELLIKER
This painting was almost certainly conceived as a pair with the following lot, and the two works have thus remained together throughout their existence. This, however, is not the only instance of Lippi pairing a Hagar and the Angel with a Sacrifice of Isaac; see, for example, the pair of upright canvases in the Museo Diocesano, San Miniato al Tedesco.υ1 A third treatment of Hagar and the Angel has been cut up into two separate canvases, both of which are now in the Museo Bardini, Florence.υ2

There is a preparatory drawing (fig. 1) for the figure of Hagar in Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, and published by Chiara d'Afflito in her 2002 monograph on Lippi.υ3 Although the present work was unknown to her when preparing the monograph, D'Afflito does hypothesise that the drawing is possibly a sketch for a figure of Hagar in a lost work, a hypothesis that, with the re-emergence of the present work, can now be validated. 1. d'Afflito, under Literature, pp. 210-11, nos. 39-40, both reproduced.
2. Idem, p. 204, no. 33, reproduced.
3. Inv. no. F.C. 125909; see Literature, p. 336, no. 4, reproduced.