3719B
The Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son
- 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
