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The Return of the Prodigal Son
French
1640s
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.6 × 42.5 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 26.2 × 32.9 cm (10 5/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 26.2 × 32.9 cm (10 5/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.905
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 1187, only state; Duplessis 37, only state; IFF 37; Le Blanc 79
DescriptionBound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in yellow-brown ink, the mark of the MFA Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
ProvenanceJohn Evelyn (b. 1620-d. 1706), London. Elizabeth Day McCormick (b. 1873-d. 1957), Chicago; 1944, her gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 8, 1996)