# The Parable of the King Who Prepared a Wedding

- By: Maerten van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1498 - 1574)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1095RG)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ececcd2fffc1068f3273c0eb00368466.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)