Plate Five, from Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins

Prints and Drawings

1606

Jan Saenredam
Dutch, 1565-1607

Jan Saenredam was a Netherlandish engraver, draftsman, and mapmaker. This engraving series illustrates a parable from the book of Matthew (25:1–13). Plate four (1972.790) shows a bridegroom emerging from a doorway marked with a Christological sculpture of a lamb. He admits five wise virgins carrying full oil lamps into his wedding feast, a metaphor for heaven. Five foolish virgins, who have wasted their oil in frivolous pursuits, beg the wise virgins to lend them oil so that they may also enter. Plate five reveals that these foolish virgins have been barred from the feast because, when they left to replenish their lamps, they returned too late.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jan Saenredam
Title: Plate Five, from Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1606
Medium: Engraving on paper
Dimensions: Sheet, trimmed to platemark: 26.5 × 36.8 cm (10 7/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1972.791
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