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The Parable of the Tribute Money
Master of the Egmont AlbumsLinkedCulture matchlcp-4c5508ca5b89
- Date
- c. 1580–1600
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, traces of pen and black ink and black chalk, on paper; framing lines in brown ink
- Culture
- Netherlands, late 16th Century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 156278
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The New Testament parable of the tribute money addresses the division between worldly and divine power. Here, the artist depicted Christ in the center of a civic square with one hand pointing toward a king wearing a crown and an ermine robe and the other toward God above. Encouraged by Christ’s words to show each authority its due, the crowd shows deference to both the king and God via facial expression, pose, and gesture. Parables were enduringly popular on prints, stained glass, and decorative objects for their relevance to the issues and choices made by everyday citizens. The pose of the kneeling man and the decoration of the door surround in this drawing are both based on details in a woodcut made earlier in the century by the German artist Albrecht Dürer.
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- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1992: Private collection, Germany (unidentified collector's mark: PMG (not in Lugt) | 1992: with Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel, Hamburg, 1992 | 1992: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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