| 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 Prodigal Son Among the Pigs, 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 outside the depiction, below: Al verteert hebbende, begeert sijn buyck te vullen met denDraf die de swijnen aten. |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: Lucae. 15. 16. | |
| printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: 43 | |
| inscription reverse, centre: 5 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-GI |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-GI |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11425/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25I3
farm or solitary house in landscape
Iconclass
31A233 kneeling figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass 41A17 farm (building) Iconclass 46A15 the poor Iconclass 47I212 pig Iconclass 47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 73C86 parables and proverbial sayings of Christ ~ human and divine love Iconclass 73C864 the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) Iconclass 73C8645 the prodigal son tends the swine and eats from their trough Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
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