Hagar and the Angel

A native of Woerden, near Utrecht, Swanevelt visited Paris in 1623 and shortly after moved to Italy where he worked in Rome between 1629-41. In the present work, his northern style, influenced by Adam Elsheimer and Paul Brill (who died in Rome in 1626) is tempered with a Claudian light. It may have been executed after Swanevelt returned from Rome to live in Paris where he was appointed court painter to Louis XIV.

In an Louis XIV carved giltwood frame.