Cleveland Museum of Art
Lazarus and the Rich Man
Jacopo BassanoLinkedCulture matchlcp-ee7c815c8654
- Date
- c. 1550
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Italy, 16th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 118679
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The Biblical parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke 16:19-21) tells of a man who feasted and celebrated every day, while a beggar named Lazarus sat starving nearby. Dogs came to lick the sores on the poor man's body. However, when the two men died, Lazarus was welcomed into heaven, while the rich man was consigned to hell. The Rich Man (far right) and Lazarus (far left) are both physically and socially opposed; while Lazarus reclines on the floor, the Rich Man relaxes on his lavish table.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
- Provenance
- 1905: Purchased from Simonetti (Rome, Italy) by Dan Fellows Platt | 1905-1939: Owned by Dan Fellows Platt (1873-1928; Englewood, New Jersey), upon his death, held in trust by the estate | 1939: Estate of Dan Fellows Platt, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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