id:			148363
accession number:	1975.76
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.76
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:38.526000

Sleeping Peasants near Fields (Parable of the Weeds), 1650–53. Simon de Vlieger (Dutch, 1601–1653). Oil on canvas; framed: 122 x 161.5 x 8 cm (48 1/16 x 63 9/16 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 90.4 x 130.4 cm (35 9/16 x 51 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1975.76

title:				Sleeping Peasants near Fields (Parable of the Weeds)
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creation date:			1650–53
creation date earliest:		1650
creation date latest:		1653
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Simon de Vlieger (Dutch, 1601–1653)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 122 x 161.5 x 8 cm (48 1/16 x 63 9/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 90.4 x 130.4 cm (35 9/16 x 51 5/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed lower left: S. DE VLIEGER 16[5...]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Meesters van ons Landschap (Masters of 17th century Dutch Landscape Painting)
	opening date:   1987-10-02T04:00:00
	<i>Meesters van ons Landschap (Masters of 17th century Dutch Landscape Painting)</i>. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 2, 1987-January 3, 1988); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (co-organizer) (February 3-May 1, 1988); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (co-organizer) (June 5-July 31, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Cleveland Museum of Art (02/03/1976 - 03/07/1976) "Year in Review" (cat. no. 64, illus pp. 40)', 'opening_date': '1976-02-03T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (10/02/1987 - 01/03/1988); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (02/01/1988 - 05/01/1988); Philidelphia Museum of Art (06/05/1988 - 07/31/1988) "Masters of17th-Century Dutch Lanscape Painting" (cat. no. 112, pp. 512-513, repr. p. 512, repr. color plate 79)', 'opening_date': '1987-10-02T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	- Hon. Frederick George Lindley Meynell
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	-1974 Charles Meynell, sold, London, Sotheby's and Company, 03/27/1974, no. 7, pl. 7
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	1774-1975 [Frederick Mont, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 156
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n176

	The Cleveland Museum of Art.<em> The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 284; Reproduced: p. 285
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	Shackelford, George T. M. <em>Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape.</em> Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 40, fig. 17
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IMAGES

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