Abraham and the Three Angels

Abraham and the Three Angels is a c. 1670-1674 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, which bought it in 1948.[1]

Abraham and the Three Angels (c. 1670-1674) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

The work is one of eight paintings commissioned for Seville's Hermandad de la Caridad, to which the artist himself belonged and one of whose commandments was to clothe the naked. Four of those eight works remain in Seville (Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man, The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, Moses at the Rock of Horeb and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary), whereas the Ottawa work and the remaining three were looted by Napoleon's army in 1810 (The Return of the Prodigal Son, National Gallery of Art; The Healing of the Paralytic, National Gallery, London; The Liberation of Saint Peter, Hermitage Museum).[2]

References

"Catalogue entry". Archived from the original on 2021-02-14. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
(in Spanish) "El Prado restaura "San Juan de Dios", una de las ocho obras de Murillo para la Hermandad de la Santa Caridad sevillana". 7 February 2006.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Immaculate Conceptions	San Vicente (c. 1640–1650) La Colasal (1645–1655) Esquilache (1645–1655) El Escorial (1660–1665) Museo Soumaya (c. 1670) Aranjuez (c. 1675) Los Venerables (c. 1678) Walpole (c. 1680)
Other religious works	The Vision of Fray Lauterio (c. 1640) Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1640–1645) The Angels' Kitchen (1646) Saint Francis of Assisi at Prayer (c. 1645–1650) The Flight into Egypt (1647–1650) The Holy Family with a Little Bird (1650) Rebecca and Eleazar (1652) Our Lady of the Rosary (1650–1655) Saint Roderick (c. 1650–1655) The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua (1656) The Good Shepherd (c. 1660) The Birth of the Virgin (1661) Dolorosa Madonna (1665) The Patrician's Dream (1665) Christ after the Flagellation (Boston) (c. 1665) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1665) Liberation of Peter (1665–1667) Saint Justa and Saint Rufina (c. 1666) Madonna and Child of the Napkin (c. 1666) Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1668) Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms (c. 1668) Saint Anthony with the Christ Child (1665–1666, 1668–1669) Saint Francis Embracing Christ on the Cross (1668–1669) Christ on the Cross (c. 1660–1670) Isaac Blessing Jacob (1665–1670) Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda (c. 1667–1670) The Return of the Prodigal Son (c. 1667–1670) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1668–1670) Christ after the Flagellation (Champaign) (c. 1670) Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man (1672) The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Murillo, Seville) (c. 1669–1674) Moses at the Rock of Horeb (c. 1669–1674) Abraham and the Three Angels (c. 1670–1674) Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Curing the Sick (1672) The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell (1670–1675) Christ on the Cross (c. 1675, Metropolitan Museum of Art) Christ on the Cross (c. 1675, Prado) Christ on the Cross (c. 1677, Prado) Saint Thomas of Villanova Healing a Lame Man (c. 1675) Ecce Homo (c. 1672–1678) The Christ Child Distributing Bread to Pilgrims (1678) The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities (c. 1680) The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Murillo, Edinburgh) (c. 1667–1682)
Genre works	The Young Beggar (1645–1650) Children Eating Grapes and a Melon (1645–1650) Boy with a Dog (1655–1660) Four Figures on a Step (c. 1655–1660) Two Women at a Window (1665–1675) The Little Fruitseller (c. 1670–1675) Children Eating a Tart (1670–1675) The Flower Girl (c. 1675–1680)
Portraits	Portrait of Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga (c. 1653) Portrait of Íñigo Melchor Fernandez de Velasco (1658-1659)
Museums	Casa de Murillo

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