China and Japan

Sino-Christian painting Oil on panel, representing the trinitarian Christ on the cross, with six wisemen representing various philosophical or religious trends prostrating at the foot of the cross. These include a Chinese Jesuit, Confucius, Laozi, and others. Numerous Christian supplications and invocations (translation available upon request). The base of the work depicts two pagans burning in hellfire. China, 19th century. 131 x 67.5 cm-

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