Currently not on view
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam
Domenico Feti, Italian, ca. 1589–1623
y1942-64
Information
Title
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam
Maker
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
57 x 40.5 cm (22 7/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
frame: 69 x 53 x 5.2 cm (27 3/16 x 20 7/8 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry White Cannon, Jr., Class of 1910, Collection, by exchange
Object Number
y1942-64
Culture
Type
Materials
(Schaeffer Galleries, New York); 1942 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.
- Giuseppe Campori, Raccolta di cataloghi ed inventarii inediti di quadri, statue, disegni, bronzi, dorerie, smalti, medaglie, avorii, ecc., dal secolo XV al secolo XIX, (Modena: Modena, C. Vincenzi, 1870).
- Gems of barogue painting: exhibition, January 27-February 28, 1942, (New York: Schaeffer Galleries, 1942)., no. 15
- Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "Domenico Fetti: the parable of the mote and the beam", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 2, no. 1 (Spring, 1943): p. 2-3., p. 1-3
- A loan exhibition of paintings by Domenico Fetti, 1589-1624: February twenty-eighth through March twenty-fifth 1950, Durlacher Brothers, 11 East 57th Street, New York City, (New York: Durlacher Brothers, 1950).
- Wolfgand Stechow, "Exhibition of Italian paintings of the 17th century", Bulletin (Allen Memorial Art Museum) 9, no. 2 (Winter, 1952)., p. 40 (illus.)
- Pamela Askew, "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti", Art bulletin 43, no. 1 (Mar., 1961): p. 21-45., p. 26-27, 41-42
- Catalogue of paintings, (York, UK: City of York Art Gallery, 1961-1974)., Vol. 1: no. 742
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 99
