Sleeping Peasants near Fields (Parable of the Weeds)
1650–53
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 90.4 × 130.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-111417
During the 1600s Protestant leaders denounced visual representations, in a belief that a strict understanding of the scriptures was the only way to achieve salvation. As a result, Protestants did not generally commission religious images. However, where religious painting did appear, they often depicted verses from the Bible with strict didactic values, such as Sleeping Peasants near Fields (Parable of the Weeds). The subject of this painting is the Parable of the Weeds from Matthew 13:24-30. Simon de Vlieger has illustrated the point in the story where the peasants sleep after sowing good se…
Provenance
Marlatt Fund, 1975.76
Registry history
- 1650–53 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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