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Series Title: Parable of the Sower

The Seed Falling by the Wayside

1574

Philip Galle

(Flemish, 1537–1612)

after Gerard van Groeningen

(Flemish)
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Culture
Netherlands
Medium
engraving
Credit Line
L. E. Holden Fund 2023.128.1
Catalogue raisonné
New Hollstein, Philips Galle 148 i/iii
Public Domain
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Not on view
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Two allegorical figures, Negligence and Sluggishness, seated at either side of the sleeping sower indicate two sources of his problems.

Description

This is one of a series of four prints portraying the biblical parable of the sower, made in Antwerp (in present-day Belgium) at the end of the 1500s. The parable compares types of soil to people in the world: one hardened; one fickle; one distracted by things of the world; and one with an open heart, ready to accept God. In this image of the sower hardened to the word of God, the man has fallen asleep beside the field while a small devil steals the word of God from his heart.

The Seed Falling by the Wayside

1574

Philip Galle, Gerard van Groeningen

(Flemish, 1537–1612), (Flemish)
Netherlands

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