The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree, 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): 15.5 × 20.9 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 234, State only

Accession Number

1964.8.368

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 center, in plate, in image: .1.5.8.5.; lower right, in plate, in image: .H. Bol. Inu A.C. fec Sadl .exc; below image, in plate: Frugifera eximijs offertur laudibus arbor / Quae tempestivos dat fructus grata colono. / Vindice sed merito sterilis ruit icta bipenni. / Saepe tamen precibus differtur poena malorum. Luc. 13. (The fruitful tree which graciously confers seasonable fruits on the husbandman, is shown high praise. But the barren one, having justly been struck by the vengeful ax, falls to ruin. Yet often is the punishment of evildoers deferred through prayers of supplication. Luke 13. [translation from Melion, Walter S. and James Clifton_Through a Glass Darkly: Allegory & Faith in Nethlerlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt._Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 2019, p.152.])

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

2019: Through a Glass Darkly: Allegory & Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2019, no. 65, repro.

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. 234, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 80.