About this work
The two thieves attempting to eat the bread they stole from Yolyānā and Barbārā
Original catalogue wording
1. The two thieves attempting to eat the bread they stole from Yolyānā and Barbārā | 4. The two thieves become monks in the church
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The two thieves attempting to eat the bread they stole from Yolyānā and BarbārāPosition recorded by PEMM: left
Bärbara and Yolyana; Their teeth that were broken when they spat out, having taken [food] from the women
- 024. The two thieves become monks in the churchPosition recorded by PEMM: right
Those thieves who became monks
- Source date
- 1667-1706
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Shelfmark
- 2002.4
- Folio
- 83r
- Recorded provenance
- Originally sold to Sam Fogg, Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London, by 1998 [research report in curatorial file; Fogg and Hosking, 2001, no. 19]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002. Catalog by Getatchew Haile in PEMM Dropbox
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1807 (2 episode rows)