Hagar and the Angel (Agar et l'ange)
Medium
cliché-verre
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1967.18.28
Art Historical Context
In the serene yet dramatic *Hagar and the AngelAgar et l'ange)* of 1871, Jean-Camille Corot a pivotal biblical moment from Genesis: the outcast Hagar, fleeing into the desert with her son Ishmael, encounters a divine angel who promises solace and salvation. Corot, a of French landscape painting and a key figure in the Barb school, infused his late-career works with poetic light and subtle emotion, bridging Romanticism and the emerging Impressionist movement. This print reveals his softer, more introspective side, moving beyond his famed pastoral scenes. The artwork's medium, *cliché-verre*, m...
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born on July 16, 1796, in Paris to a prosperous bourgeois family—his father a former wig-maker turned draper and his mother a successful milliner—was initially apprenticed in the textile trade but pursued art from his mid-twenties with family support. He studied under the neoclassical landscapist Achille Etna Michallon in 1821–1822, who taught him to sketch outdoors in...