with one hand on Isaac's face, who lies bound on a pile of wood, is about to execute the command with the other, when an angel seizes his arm and the knife falls from his grasp. Houghton Gallery, whence passed in 1779, for £300, to Hermitage. Engraved by Murphy; Haide.—Ch. Blanc, Rembrandt, 401.
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Sacrifice of Abraham, Rembrandt, Hermitage.
By Andrea del Sarto, Dresden Gallery; wood, H. 7 ft. 7 in. × 5 ft. 8 in.; signed. Abraham, about to slay Isaac on an altar, is arrested by a boy angel from above; at one side, the ram caught in the thicket; at the other, in background, a naked man watching an ass. Painted in 1529, for Francis I., but in Andrea's possession at his death in 1531; presented by Filippo Strozzi to Alfonso d'Avalos; after many wanderings, returned to Florence and placed in Tribune of the Uffizi; exchanged for a Correggio with the Duke of Modena, and finally sold to Augustus II. of Saxony. Copy in Lyons Museum, carried from Holland by French and presented by Napoleon in 1811. Smaller copy in Madrid Museum. Engraved by Surugue père.—Gal. Roy. de Dresde, i. Pl. 8; Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 51; C. & C., Italy, iii. 577.
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Sacrifice of Abraham, Andrea del Sarto, Dresden Gallery.
By Sodoma, Duomo, Pisa; wood, figures life size. Painted in 1542. Carried to Paris in 1811; returned in 1814.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 397.
By D. Teniers, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. 1 in. × 3 ft. 3 in.; signed, dated 1653. Abraham and Isaac kneeling in prayer before an altar, on which is a fire and a ram ready for sacrifice; in distance, a landscape, with two servants and an ass. Engraved by Berkowez.—Gal. de Vienne, iii. Pl. 157.
ABSOLON, JOHN, born at Lambeth,
England, May 6, 1815. Genre painter,
chiefly in water colours; pupil of Ferrigi;
supported himself when young by painting
portraits in oil; in 1838 became a member
of the New Water Colour Society, from
which he withdrew in 1858, and exhibited
in Academy an oil picture, Boulogne, 1857;
