Chin Fo Cum (Michael Alphonsus Shen Fu-tsung)

Former TitleChin Fo Cum, A Christian Chinese, to Europe 1684

Publisher Nicolas Langlois (French, 1640 - 1703)

Dateca. 1690

MediumEngraving

DimensionsImage: 11 7/16 × 8 1/16 inches (29.05 × 20.48 cm)

Credit LineGift of Laurence Sickman

Object numberF83-40/43

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Exhibition History

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, no. 45.

Faces from China’s Past: Paintings for Entertainment and Remembrance, April 28-December 9, 2012, no cat., as Chin Fo Cum, A Christian Chinese, to Europe 1684.

Faces from China’s Past: Paintings for Entertainment and Remembrance, April 1-September 15, 2019, no cat., as Chin Fo Cum, A Christian Chinese, to Europe 1684.

Provenance

Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by August 5, 1983;

Given by Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983.

Published References

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, p. 7.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 290, as Chin Fo Cum, A Christian Chinese, to Europe 1684.

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