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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.613.251
People
Unidentified Artist
After Ambrosius Francken (1544 - 1618)
Published by Gerard de Jode, Flemish (1509 - 1591)
Title
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Twelve Parables from the New Testament
Series/Book Title: Thesaurus Sacrarum, 1585 edition
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1580-85
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342559

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
plate: 21 x 27.2 cm (8 1/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right margin, graphite: 261
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: In tenebras rapitur densas sine Veste iugali A domino mensa forte repertus homo. Math. 22.
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, brown ink: Cette histoire depend d'vne autre cy dessus ou il est parlé d'vn Roy celebrant les nopces de son filz. Arriua donq que entré les banquettans il se trouua vn / homme qui n'auoit sa robbe de nopces, et jncontinent le Roy commanda qu'on Luy liast piedz et mains et qu'il fust jetté és Penebres exterieures, là / y aura; pleurs et grincement de denz, et dit en suitte, plusieurs sont appellez mais piu sont esleus.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein (de Jode) 291

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.613.251
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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