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The Wise Virgins Received By the Bridegroom (from The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgin series, plate 4 of 4)

Harmen Jansz. Muller (Netherlandish, about 1538/39–1617)
After: Gerard van Groeningen (Netherlandish, active Antwerp 1563 – 1573)
about 1567-70

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 21.2 × 25.6 cm (8 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number63.533
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Filedt Kok (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, Muller Dynasty Part I) 48 (I/I)
State I/I
Signed Signed in plate, lower right: Harman Muller fecit.
Marks Watermark [yes, but not identified]; verso, in graphite: 5; MFA stamp [Lugt 282] with accession number in graphite: 63.533
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, lower left: 4 [in reverse]; in lower margin, lower left: QVÆ VIGILES SESE THALAMIS SPONSOQVE PARARVNT/ACCIPIT HAS SPONSVS, EPVLISQVE ACCVMBERE DONAT.; and lower right: AT STVLTÆ EMPTRICES TANDEM REDIERE REPVLSAM/PASSVRÆ, SVRDASQVE FORES CLAMORIBVS OPPLENT.
ProvenanceMay 8, 1963, puchased from Craddock & Barnard (dealers), London, by the MFA. (Acquisition Date: May 8, 1963)