Object number1984.20

The Prodigal Son Reduced to a Swineherd

DateNd

Artist Jan Saenredam (Dutch, 1565-1607)

after Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1566-1651)

CultureDutch

MediumEngraving on paper

DimensionsSheet: 17 1/8 x 25 1/16 in. (43.5 x 63.66 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

On View

Not on view

Period16th c

Classification(s)

SignedSigned (in plate, LR): Saenredam Scup. et excubebat

InscribedInscribed (in plate, LR): A. Blomaert inue.; (along bottom edge): Qui modo Gratus Baccbogz maderet / Prodigus, et lentos luxu irritaret amores, / Nudus opum, et lacera male tectus membra lacerna / Languida degeneri traxit versigia gressu / (Suasit enim importuna fames) ad tecta coloni: / Illum suppliciter plovantem acmulta precantem / Villicus excipens, digito indice pascere stantes / Imperat, immundum pecus, ad prasepia porcos. / Ille imbians rabidi solvit ieiunia ventris / Immersasqz sero filiquas avidae ingerit alvo / GTSScheuelius

Catalogue raisonnéBartsch 25; Hollstein 27BibliographySusan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Poughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, 2005), p. 147

Vassar Exhibitions

Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art", April 8-June 19 2005. catalog no. 17

Poughkeepsie, NY, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection," April 27-September 2, 2018.

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