23/6/24 – Acquisition – New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Around the time that the Louvre purchased from the American 19C gallery a painting by the illustrious unknown Johann Richard Seel (see article), the Metropolitan Museum purchased, from the same dealer, a painting by one of the most important German painters of the 19th century, one of the founders of the Nazarene movement, Johann Friedrich Overbeck.
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869)
The Banishment of Hagar1839-1841
Oil on canvas – 99.1 × 113.7 cm
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photo : Metropolitan Museum (Domaine public)
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See the image on his page
Originally from a Protestant family, Overveck converted to Catholicism after founding in 1809, with some of his fellow students…
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