Curator’s note

Hagar in the Wilderness

A biblical history painting by the great French landscapist Camille Corot. Set within a vast wilderness, it shows the abandoned Hagar and her child rescued by an angel, an ambitious early work fusing sweeping nature with human emotion.

Source: Arterra 큐레이션

Date: 1835
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 71 x 106 1/2 in. (180.3 x 270.5 cm)
On view: Gallery 802

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ArtistJean-Baptiste-Camille Corot PeriodNeoclassical & Romantic CountryFrance MuseumThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

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