Art, literature & history
Mountainous Landscape with the Parable of the Sower
c. 1572/1573
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 18.7 x 30 cm (7 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 25.9 x 34.2 cm (10 3/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.181.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Fontana. Mountainous Landscape with the Parable of the Sower. Giovanni Battista Fontana; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Fontana,_Mountainous_Landscape_with_the_Parable_of_the_Sower,_c._1572-1573,_NGA_73840.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Mountainous Landscape with the Parable of the Sower — Giovanni Battista Fontana. c. 1572/1573.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 18.7 x 30 cm (7 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 25.9 x 34.2 cm (10 3/16 x 13 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.181.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.