Painted in 1860, and presented at the Agricultural, Industrial and Artistic Exhibition in October of the same year, organized in Alicante by the Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Still under the influence of his teacher Martínez Yago, an excellent author, but above all a restorer of religious works of the best Valencian baroque style, the student Agrasot returns to the pious themes of his youth, now at 24 years old, he undertakes his own representation of the fragment of the Genesis when Yahweh orders Isaac to kill his own son Isaac, thus proving his most absolute fidelity. Blindfolded by his son, the father, with his dagger raised to fulfill God's command, is stopped by an angel who holds his arm, preventing the filicide, while showing him a lamb to be sacrificed in place of the boy. Among the different versions that we know of this biblical theme, it seems to us that Agrasot could have based itself on that of Pedro de Orrente (1580-1645), who, with all certainty, painted in Valencia, at the same time that The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, as one of the best tenebrists of the Spanish baroque, competing with its greatest exponent in sight José de Ribera. All these influences, Orrente, Ribera, in addition to the illustrations on Bassano, Caravaggio, etc., and of course the tutelage of Martínez Yago, must have influenced this work of great aspirations, demonstrating that his training is beginning to be completed.
