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image of The Return of the Prodigal Son
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (artist)
Spanish, 1617 - 1682
The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1667/1670
oil on canvas
Overall: 236.3 x 261 cm (93 1/16 x 102 3/4 in.) framed: 262.9 x 286.4 x 8.6 cm (103 1/2 x 112 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
1948.12.1
On View
From the Tour: Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Object 7 of 7

1787Ponz, Antonio. Viaje de España. 18 vols. Madrid, 1787-1794: 9:148.
1800Céan Bermúdez, Juan A. Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores de las bellas artes en España. 6 vols. Madrid, 1800: 2:52.
1824Buchanan, William. Memoirs of Painting. London, 1824: 43-44.
1829Réveil, Etienne A. Musée de peinture et de sculpture. 16 vols. Paris, 1829-1834: 5:301.
1844Jameson, Anna B. Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London. London, 1844: 191.
1848Stirling-Maxwell, William. Annals of the Artists of Spain. 3 vols., London, 1848: 2:864; 3:1431 (also 1891 ed., 4 vols., London, 3:1028; 4:1622).
1854Waagen, Gustav F. Treasures of Art in Great Britain. 3 vols. and supplement. London, 1854: 2:67-68.
1883Curtis, Charles B. Velázquez and Murillo. New York and London, 1883: 116, 195.
1892Justi, Carl. Murillo. Leipzig, 1892: 64, fig. 20.
1896Gómez Imaz, Manuel. Inventario de los cuadros sustraídos por el Gobierno intruso en Sevilla año de 1810. Seville, 1896: 38-41, 61.
1907Calvert, Albert F. Murillo: A Biography and Appreciation. London, 1907: 63, 167.
1913Mayer, August L. Murillo. Klassiker der Kunst, 22. Stuttgart and Berlin, 1913: 126, repro. (also 1923 ed., 12:131, repro.).
1923Montoto, Santiago. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Estudio biográfico-crítico. Seville, 1923: 97.
1951Dorival, Bernard. "Callot modèle de Murillo." Revue des Arts. 2 (1951): 94-101.
1952Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 84, color repro.
1960Evans, Grose. Spanish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Ten in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 32, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 309, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 95
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:212, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 84, repro.
1970Brown, Jonathan. "Hieroglyphs of Death and Salvation: The Decoration ... of the Hermandad de la Caridad, Seville." AB 52 (1970): 265-277, fig. 5. Repr. In Images ... in 17th Century Spanish Painting. Princeton, 1978: 128-146.
1972Lipschutz, Ilse H. Spanish Painting and the French Romantics. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 37.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 250, repro.
1978Gaya Nuño, Juan A. L'opera completa di Murillo. Milan, 1978: 109-110, color pl. 53, fig. 253.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 63, pl. 47, color repro.
1980Valdivieso, Enrique, and Juan Miguel Serrera. El Hospital de la Caridad de Sevilla. Seville, 1980: pl. 38, no. 1.
1981Angulo Iñiguez, Diego. Murillo: Su vida, su arte, su obra. 3 vols. Madrid, 1981: 1:396-398; 2:86-87, figs. 274-277.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 247, no. 316, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 290, repro.
1990Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 109-110, color repro. 111.
1992Lectionary Homiletics 3, no. 4 (March 1992): 35, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 87, repro.
1997Good News, St. Louis, 1997, p. 9, repro.
1997Tomlinson, Janis. From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561-1828, New York, 1997, no. 51, repro.

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