The Parable of the Kingdom of Heaven

1585

Adriaen Collaert

Artist, Flemish, Flemish, 1560 - 1618

Jan Sadeler I

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 15.3 × 20.8 cm (6 × 8 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.370

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 236, 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

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. 66, 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. 236, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 82.

Inscriptions

lower left, in plate, in image: .A.C fec.; lower center, in plate, in image: .H. Bol. Inu.; lower right, in plate, in image:.Sadl. exc.; lower right, in plate, in image: .1.5.8.5.; below image, in plate: Regalem ad coenam, natum coniungere sponsae, / Dum parat, invitat Dominus; renuere vocati, / Scilicet indigni; mox hinc genus omne vocavit / Convivas, poenis pravos ubi mulctat acerbis. Matt. 22. (While he prepares to join son and bride, the Lord issues invitations to a royal feast; evidently unworthy, the invitees decline; Hence he presently called upon every sort of table companion, and at the same time punished the wrongdoers with harsh penalties. Matthew 22. [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.153.])

Wikidata ID

Q65506469


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