The Parable of the Unjust Husbandmen

1585

Adriaen Collaert after Hans Bol

Associated Names
Adriaen Collaert

Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

Jan Sadeler I

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Hans Bol

Artist After, Flemish, Flemish, 1534 - 1593

The image displays a landscape scene viewed from an elevated perspective. The horizon is high, extending to distant mountains and a shoreline. The artwork features detailed line work with cross-hatching and stippling for texture and shading. The palette is monochromatic with shades of black, gray, and white. Figures and animals engage in activities, with a village and various buildings in the background. Fields, trees, and mountains are visible in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.369

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 235, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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.

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q65506467

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