The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.

[Antwerp] : Anton. Wierix, [1600?]

1 print : engraving ; image 7.8 x 5.7 cm.

Sat est, Iesu, vulnerasti, sat est, totum penetrasti sagittis ardentibus. Procul, procul hinc libido: nam caelestis hic Cupido vincet ignes ignibus. Anton. Wierx fecit et exc. Translation of lettering: Enough, Jesus, enough! You have shot through the whole heart with flaming arrows. Lust, [begone] far far from here! For here is a heavenly Cupid who will conquer fire with fire

In the seventeenth century the prints in this series (Cor Jesu amanti sacrum) were used in catechisms by Jesuit preachers in Fujian, China: E. Menegon, op. cit.

M. Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Les estampes des Wierix, vol. 1, Brussels 1978, no. 431

Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, vol. LXI, The Wierix Family: part III, compiled by Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Rotterdam 2003, no. 447

Eugenio Monegon, 'Jesuit emblematica in China: the circulation of allegorical images in late Ming Fujian, according to Chinese and Western sources', Monumenta serica, 2007

Wellcome Collection 31746i