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3719B

The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son

3719B
Artist
Unidentified Chinese Artist
Title
The Prodigal Son
Date
1640
Medium
Woodcut. Block 23/48 illustrating the Jincheng Shuxiang (Images in a booklet presented to His Majesty), composed and with texts by Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592-1666). Published in Beijing in 1640.
Location
17th century publishers of the Jincheng Shuxiang, Beijing, China.
Photo Source
Bibliothèque Nationale de France Website
Correspondence Credit
D'Elia 1939, 124
Note
The immediate source of this woodcut was an unidentified artist's autograph illustration to the Vita D[omi]ni N[ost]ri Jesu Christi […] Sinarum Imperatori transmissa à Maximiliano […] utrusq. Bauvaria Duce (Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ transmitted to the Emperor and Monarch of the Chinese by Maximilian Duke of the two Bavarias), a manuscript composed in Augsburg in 1617 and now lost. This autograph illustration was based on the corresponding print. See Standaert 2006.
Item
3719B
Correspondences
Archive: 3449A/3719B
Archive: 3450A/3719B
Archive: 3449A/3719B
Archive: 3450A/3719B