The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, ca. 1799?1800, Watercolor, pen and black ink over graphite, Sheet: 14 3/16 ? 13 1/16 in. (36 ? 33. 2 cm), Drawings, William Blake (British, London 1757?1827 London), Blake painted four versions of this subject for his patron Thomas Butts and this lucid watercolor is the earliest. The wise virgins at left are elegant, palely luminous, and composed within a single plane, recalling classical low-relief sculpture