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The Prodigal Son: The Return
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The Prodigal Son: The Return

1881-1882

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James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The Prodigal Son: The Return

1881-1882

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.)
Portfolio/Series From the series, "The Prodigal Son (L'enfant prodigue)"
Credit Line Gift of Elizabeth Wrenn, Eleanor de Ghize, Francis Jencks, and Gardner Jencks
Object Number 1973.91.1d
"Claude Monet and Modernist London: Reflections on the Thames", Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, Florida, January 16, 2005 through April 17, 2005; tour to Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 29, 2005 - September 4, 2005; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 2, 2005 - January 31, 2006.

Andaleeb Banta and Joanna Karlgaard, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “The Rembrandt Effect,” December 12, 2021 - April 10, 2022.

Signed: one

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

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