Lorrain worked in Italy and was famous for his landscape painting, which he normally decorated with some classical buildings and pastoral figures in classical dress. He was primarily interested in an ideal landscape and its illumination, second came the classical architecture. So here Hagar and Ishmael appear more as a decoration of the landscape.
Herbal Tea on the River
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Herbal Tea on the River
12"x24"x1.5" acrylic on wood 
This piece is an omage to the work of Emile Gallé (1846-1904) French glass 
artist and designer.
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