The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, c. 1560/1563

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 22.3 × 28.9 cm (8 3/4 × 11 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 147, State i/ii

Accession Number

1950.1.25

Artists / Makers

Philip Galle (artist) Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist after) Netherlandish, c. 1525/1530 - 1569

Hieronymus Cock (publisher) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: H. cock excu.; lower right in image: BRVEGEL. INV:; on stairs at upper right: Non noui vos (I know you not); on banderole at center: Ecce sponsus venit exit obviam ei. (Behold, the bridegroom cometh. Go ye out to meet him); lower center, in plate below image: DATE NOBIS DE OLEO VESTRO, QVIA LAMPADES NOSTRAE EXTINGVUN / TVR. / NEQVAQVAM, NEQVANDO NON SVFFICIAT NOBIS ET VOBIS math. 25 ([And the foolish said unto the wise,] Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. [But the wise answered, saying,] Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you. [Matt. 25:8-9]) [translation from Nadine Orenstein, ed., Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, p. 208.]

Bibliography

1908: Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Philips Galle, Manfred Sellink and Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 147, state i/ii.