File:Hans Bol, Marten van Cleve (After) - Pasteurs aveugles (Blind shepherds).jpg

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Pasteurs aveugles (Blind shepherds)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
After Marten van Cleve  (1527–1577/1581)  wikidata:Q1905348
 
Alternative names
Maarten van Cleef, Maerten van Cleef, Marten van Cleef, Maarten van Cleve, Maerten van Cleve, Martin van Cleve
Description Flemish painter and drawer
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 1577 or 1581
Location of birth/death Antwerp Antwerp
Work period from 1555 until 1581
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1555-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1581-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q1905348
Hans Bol  (1534–1593)  wikidata:Q999233
 
Hans Bol
Alternative names
Jean Bol, Joannes Bol, Johannes Bol
Description Flemish printmaker, painter, miniaturist and drawer
Date of birth/death 16 December 1534 Edit this at Wikidata 30 November 1593 (buried)
Location of birth/death Mechelen Amsterdam
Work period from 1550 until 1593
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1593-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Heidelberg (1550–1552), Mechelen (1560–1572), Antwerp (1574–1584), Amsterdam (1584–1593)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q999233
Title
Pasteurs aveugles (Blind shepherds)
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description

Landscape in which allegorical figures and figurative elements together form a rebus. On the left a fireplace on which the year 1579, next to it two blind shepherds, in heaven God with the tables of law. In the middle two bears, a mitten at a broken door, a fool who is piling and to the right two wolves that are shearing. The population is being terrorized in the background. The print is an attack on the inability of the government of the country to protect its inhabitants. In the caption the solution of the rebus in 3 verses of 2 lines each in Dutch, French and German. Numbered lower right and lower left: 4 / IV.

Print published in Antwerp by Willem van Haecht who also composed the text. Design by Marten van Cleve engraved by Hans Bol.
Date 1579
date QS:P571,+1579-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper; etching
Dimensions height: 200 mm (7.87 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,200U174789
width: 328 mm (12.91 in)
dimensions QS:P2049,328U174789
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Source/Photographer http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.367892
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