The Parable of the King Who Prepared a Wedding, by Maerten van Heemskerck, 1555
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The Parable of the King Who Prepared a Wedding

Maerten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498 - 1574)

1555

Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk heightened with white opaque watercolor, on green prepared paper, incised for transfer
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
Unframed: 20.3 × 26.4 cm (8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawings
Credit line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Rights
CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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