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Source Description
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.
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156278
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The Parable of the Tribute Money
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drawing
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156278
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drawing
title
The Parable of the Tribute Money
description
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.
date
c. 1580–1600
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79945371
creators
522772
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 27.2 x 35.4 cm (10 11/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
cul
Netherlands, late 16th Century
accession
1992.115
Source extras
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Pen and brown ink, traces of pen and black ink and black chalk, on paper; framing lines in brown ink
tombstone
The Parable of the Tribute Money, c. 1580–1600. Master of the Egmont Albums (Netherlandish, 1480-1620). Pen and brown ink, traces of pen and black ink and black chalk, on paper; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 27.2 x 35.4 cm (10 11/16 x 13 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1992.115
supportMaterials
description
cream(3) laid paper
collection
DR - Dutch
inscriptions
inscription
falsely signed, lower right, in brown ink: Hans van Aken fecit. [abraded, visible under UV] ; VERSO, right center, in graphite: 259 ; lower left, in graphite: 641 M. 244 / (1V7) ; lower left, in graphite: PMG ; lower right, in graphite: 2063 [circled] ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible] [partially erased] ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible] [partially erased] ; lower right, in graphite: 239. ; lower right, in graphite: 53 [crossed out]
didYouKnow
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.
citations
citation
Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel <em>VIII: Master Drawings 1500-1900,</em> exh. cat. by Thomas Le Claire (New York, 1992).
page_number
cat. no. 8
citation
Turner, Evan. "The Year in Review for 1992." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38-79.
page_number
Mentioned: p.73, no. 249
citation
Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski (Beraldi). <em>Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus.</em> Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
page_number
53-54, no. 32
citation
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. 251-252, no. 79
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 08:07:49.772000
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156278
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Drawings
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DR - Dutch
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Pen and brown ink, traces of pen and black ink and black chalk, on paper; framing lines in brown ink
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gender unknown
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1
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0
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photo
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