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Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:2-13),
ca. 1699

Melchior Michael Steidl, Austrian, before 1657–1727

1997-55

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Title

Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:2-13)

Dates

ca. 1699

Maker

Melchior Michael Steidl

Medium

Brown and black ink over traces of red chalk and grey wash heightened with white

Dimensions

20.6 x 34 cm (8 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase

Object Number

1997-55

Inscription

in brown ink, lower center: Dises stuckh iss auch zu rögenspurgg | bey den herr Pater Cardeiser [Cordeiser?] im refegtdorium | gemal wordn

Culture

Austrian

Type

drawings

Materials

wash, ink, paper (fiber product), red chalk

Techniques

heightening

Subject

figures (representations), men, women, dining tables, bible stories, feasts, banquets, weddings

Peter Dreyer; formerly L.1997.180.

"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., p. 202

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Melchior Michael Steidl (Austrian, before 1657–1727), Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:2-13), ca. 1699. Brown and black ink over traces of red chalk and grey wash heightened with white; 20.6 x 34 cm. Museum purchase (1997-55) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/10159

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