id:			170221
accession number:	2012.4
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.4
updated:		2024-04-25 10:03:10.939000

The Seed Received among the Thorns, from the Parable of the Sower, c. 1573. Gerard van Groeningen (Flemish). Black chalk, gray wash, and brown ink, on cream laid paper; traces of transfer; sheet: 19.7 x 25.5 cm (7 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2012.4

title:				The Seed Received among the Thorns, from the Parable of the Sower
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creation date:			c. 1573
creation date earliest:		1568
creation date latest:		1578
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Belgium, Flanders, Antwerp, 16th century
technique:	Black chalk, gray wash, and brown ink, on cream laid paper; traces of transfer
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Flemish
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Gerard van Groeningen (Flemish)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 19.7 x 25.5 cm (7 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
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	description:	cream laid paper
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	inscription:	inscribed lower right in brown ink: "avarita"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel
	opening date:   2022-10-09T04:00:00
	<i>Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 9, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, New York, NY
	date: ?-2011
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	sold, Doyle New York, October 26, 2011, sale 11CN03, Lot 24 [as Flemish School]
	date: 2011
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	with Christopher Bishop Fine Art, Milford, CT
	date: 2011-2012
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
	date: 2012-
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		170488
	The Parable of the Sower and the Seed: The Seed Falling by the Way Side (after Gerard Van Groeningen, active Antwerp 1563-1573), 1574. After Gerard van Groeningen (Flemish), Philip Galle (Flemish, 1537-1612). Engraving; sheet: 21.3 x 25.8 cm (8 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.); image: 20 x 25.5 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Christopher Bishop 2012.80
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CITATIONS

	Christopher Bishop Fine Art. <em>Master Drawings Catalog 2014</em>. Milford, CT: Christopher Bishop Fine Art, 2014. p. 61.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 61
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	Hautekeete, Stefaan, ed. <em>From Floris to Rubens: Master Drawings from a Belgian Private Collection</em>. Ghent: Snoeck, 2016. p. 79 (entry by Stijn Alsteens).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 79, fig. 1.
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	Alsteens, Stijn. Review of <em>Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections, [II B]: Sixteenth century Northern European Drawings</em> by Burton L. Dunbar et al., <em>Master Drawings</em> 51, no. 1 (2013): 105-15.
	page number: 	p. 107
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/43705939.

	Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 249-250, no. 78
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IMAGES

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