Hugues MERLE (Le Sône 1822 - Paris 1881) Abraham banishing Agar and Ismaël Original canvas Signed and dated lower left: Hugues Merle 1892 Old restorations Provenance: Joseph Craven Collection, London, sale in London, 9 June 1877, n°71. Marshall Collection, Kaye Knowles Collection, sale 15 May 1888, n°5, bought by Agnew. London sale, Sotheby's, 23 November 1992, n°588. Seymour Stein Collection, New York sale, Sotheby's, 11 December 2003, no. 94. Bibliography: Michaël Vottero, "Hugues Merle (1822-1881) Peinture de genre et marché de l'art sous le Second Empire", Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, year 2011 (published in 2012), p. 197, n°149 (repr.p.198) Dimensions: 53.5 x 91.5 cm. Expert : Cabinet Turquin. Paris.