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Description: | This courtyard with figures was previously considered to be an architectural capriccio, an invented architectural scene, by Giovanni Paolo Panini. Instead, it is likely to be the work of the Flemish painter Jakob Ferdinand Saeys, who was active during the last decades of the seventeenth century in Antwerp. Saeys specialised in Italianate palatial views animated with small Mannerist figures which were probably painted by Hieronymus Janssens. The young man kneeling in front of an elderly man in this picture is the Prodigal Son from the New Testament parable (Luke 15. 20-24). | Subjects: | buildings and gardens (capriccio); figure; religion (prodigal son) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Saeys, Jakob Ferdinand (Flemish painter, 1658-ca. 1725) Æ Circle of Previously attributed to Panini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter, ca. 1692-1765) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8964... | Go to resource |
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