Mountainous Landscape with the Parable of the Sower

c. 1572/1573

Giovanni Battista Fontana

Artist, Veronese, c. 1524 - 1587

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.7 x 30 cm (7 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.9 x 34.2 cm (10 3/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.181.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 10, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 7.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in graphite: GB Fontana; by later hand, lower center in graphite: Parabel des Sawauer; by later hand, lower left in graphite: B 10 / 107; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: G. Fontana / G.949,44

Wikidata ID

Q74895885

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