A man stands with his lost sheep on his shoulders, sharing his joy at having found it with his neighbours and friends standing around him. In the background is the woman looking for her tenth coin with a lantern in her hand; in the scene, she shows the found coin to her neighbours.
| Artist |
Pieter Hendriksz. Schut
RKD
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Nicolaes I Visscher
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Nicolaes II Visscher
RKD
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| Title | The Parables of the Lost Sheep and Coin, from the series Toneel ofte vertooch der Bybelsche historien |
| Date | 1659 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Location | Amsterdam TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription below: De gelijckenisse van het verloren Schaep en den verloren penning wedergevonde. |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: Lucae 15.3. | |
| printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: 40 | |
| inscription reverse, centre: 2 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-GF |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-GF |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11401/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300236227 townscapes (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25I22
prospect of village, silhouette of village
Iconclass
31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D11221 boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 46B311 coin Iconclass 47I213 sheep Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 73C8 Christ as teacher (part II): parables and proverbial sayings of Christ Iconclass 73C82 parables and proverbial sayings of Christ ~ the animal world Iconclass 73C822 the lost sheep sought and found by the shepherd ~ parable of the good shepherd (Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:4-7) Iconclass 73C846 the lost piece of silver recovered (Luke 15:8-9) Iconclass 73C86 parables and proverbial sayings of Christ ~ human and divine love Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
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