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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Return of the Prodigal Son
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish, 1617 - 1682
The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1667/1670
oil on canvas, 236.3 x 261 cm (93 x 102 3/4 in.)
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
1948.12.1
From the Tour: Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Object 7 of 7

Exhibition History

1836
British Institution, London, 1836, no. 22.
1913
Spanish Old Masters, Grafton Galleries, London, 1913-1914, 88-89, no. 83.
1938
Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1938, no. 217.
1969
In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.
1982
Bartlolomé Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682, Museo del Prado, Madrid; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1982-1983, 200, no. 46, color pl. 46.
2002
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002, no. 18, repro.

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