Belgian Catholic missionaries in China: 'The five wounds of Christ', engraving with painted details in colours, 19th C.

Dim.: 134 x 71,5 cm (the frame)
Dim.: 126 x 63,5 cm (the work)

Provenance: (by repute, and with a label on the back) The collection of Lou Tseng-Tsiang 陸徵祥, Chinese premier of the Republic in 1912, who later became an important monk in the Benedectine monastery in Sint-Andries near Bruges. (Wikipedia link)

The prayer of the 'Five holy wounds', introduced in the 17th C. in China by the French missionary from the 'Missions étrangères', Jean Martin Moye, is translated and printed in Chinese.
The central panel is surrounded by historiated medallions.