Jan Saenredam1580
Verloren zoon als varkenshoeder
Having squandered everything in a far country, the prodigal son sits among the swine he now feeds, longing to eat even the pods given to the pigs (Luke 15). An engraving by the Dutch artist Jan Saenredam (1580).
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About Jan Saenredam
1565-1607 · Dutch
Jan Saenredam was a Dutch engraver trained under Hendrick Goltzius whose biblical plates — often reproducing compositions by Cornelis van Haarlem and Abraham Bloemaert — circulated widely across seventeenth-century Europe.