The Parables of the Lost Sheep and Coin, from the series Toneel ofte vertooch der Bybelsche historien

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Nicolaes II Visscher (publisher)
,
Pieter Hendriksz. Schut (engravers (printmakers))
,
Nicolaes I Visscher (publisher)

Date

1659

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
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.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Nicolaes II Visscher , Pieter Hendriksz. Schut , Nicolaes I Visscher
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper
Dimensions 68 x 100 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-GF
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, figures (representations) , townscapes (representations)
Tags New Testament Iconclass, sheep Iconclass, coin Iconclass, prospect of village, silhouette of village Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, standing figure Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass, standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass, boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass, baptism of Christ in the river Jordan: John the Baptist pouring out water on Christ's head: the Holy Ghost descends Iconclass, parables and proverbial sayings of Christ ~ the animal world Iconclass, parables and proverbial sayings of Christ ~ human and divine love Iconclass, Christ as teacher (part II): parables and proverbial sayings of Christ Iconclass, the lost piece of silver recovered (Luke 15:8-9) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-GF
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11401/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-GF
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