A story from the Old Testament, the banishment of Hagar and his son Ismael by Abraham, serves as a pretext to unfold before our eyes a broad landscape full of multiple incidental details, animals, trees, mountains, houses, etc. This type of composition shows the influence of Patinir. The work is of great interest because it is an advance in the creation of two genres that will be widely developed in the following century: the landscape and the genre scene.
