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The Prodigal Son with Poverty on His Back is Turned Away from a Rich Man's Door
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The four round "tissues" (Inv. 359, 360, 1579, and 1578) with scenes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son are presumably part of a larger series. This would also fit the stickers on the stretcher frames of Inv. 1579 and 1578 with an old numbering "X" and "XI". Renger 1970 conjectures, not entirely convincingly, a sequence of 12 images, which he reconstructed via drawings and later copies. The genre-like moralizing elaboration of the biblical parable (Luke 15:11–32), extended...
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionCredit lineDer verlorene Sohn mit der Armut auf dem Rücken wird von einem reichen Mann von seiner Tür weggewiesen. um 1520. Niederländischer Meister, 16. Jh.. Kunstmuseum Basel, Ankauf. Public domain.
