The Prodigal Son, The lost son. The story of the Lost Son, depicted in four scenes in one painting. On the left the son says goodbye to his father, behind it he drinks with a woman at a table outside an inn. On the right, the son can be seen as a pig herd, and on the far right, the son's homecoming, the father's welcome, and the slaughter of the fattened calf. The canvas is part of a series of parables painted for the Lutheran church in Leiden, leave-taking and departure of the prodigal son, the prodigal son in the midst of prostitutes feasting and dissipating his patrimony, usually in a
The Prodigal Son, The lost son. The story of the Lost Son, depicted in four scenes in one painting. On the left the son says goodbye to his father, behind it he drinks with a woman at a table outside an inn. On the right, the son can be seen as a pig herd, and on the far right, the son's homecoming, the father's welcome, and the slaughter of the fattened calf. The canvas is part of a series of parables painted for the Lutheran church in Leiden, leave-taking and departure of the prodigal son, the prodigal son in the midst of prostitutes feasting and dissipating his patrimony, usually in a brothel or inn, prodigal son tends the swine and eats from their trough, prodigal son returns home, where his father awaits him, Barent Fabritius, 1661, canvas, oil paint (paint), h cm × w 289 cm × t cm d cm
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