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Adriaen Collaert after Hans Bol

The Parable of the Unjust Husbandmen, 1585

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series Title

Emblemata Evangelica ad XII Signa Coelestia Sive (Scenes from the Life of Christ)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 15.4 × 20.9 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 235, State only

Accession Number

1964.8.369

Artists / Makers

Adriaen Collaert (artist) Netherlandish, c. 1560 - 1618

Hans Bol (artist after) Netherlandish, 1534 - 1593

Jan Sadeler I (publisher) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, in plate, in image: H.Bol. Inu A.C. fec. Sadl. exc. 1.5.8.5; below image, in plate: Vitiferum Dominus collem elocat; ergo fideles / Mittit oportuno vernas pro fenctibus anno. / Natum etiam mittit quem spretum protinus illi / Turgidi auaritia que odio inuidiaque trucidant. Matt. 21.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1962; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

2009: Scripture for the Eyes: Biblical Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY; and the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2009-2010. no. 17b.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2005: Part II, no. 235, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 81.