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L’Enfant Prodigue: le retour

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

L’Enfant Prodigue: le retour

1880-1881

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James Jacques Joseph Tissot

L’Enfant Prodigue: le retour

1880-1881

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 498 x 617 mm. (19 5/8 x 24 5/16 in.) Plate: 311 x 375 mm. (12 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Elizabeth Wrenn, Eleanor de Ghize, Francis Jencks, and Gardner Jencks
Object Number 1973.91.1d
Frontispiece and four plates after the paintings of the same title exhibited at the Dudley Gallery, 1882.
Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914

The Rembrandt Effect
Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes (Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892): vol. XII, pp. 125-134.

Yriarte, Charles. J.-J. Tissot, eaux-fortes, manière noire, pointes sèches (Paris: Imp. réunies, C., 1886).

Wentworth, Michael. James Tissot, catalogue raisonné of his prints (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978) Exhibition Catalog: Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

Signed: one

Inscribed: RECTO: LL in matrix: "J J Tissot/ 1881"; (graphite): "J Tissot"; [artist stamp Lugt 1545]; no verso.

Artist

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

1835–1901

French, 1836-1902
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