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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


Literature

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  • Justi, Carl. Murillo. Leipzig, 1892: 64, fig. 20.
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  • Dorival, Bernard. "Callot modèle de Murillo." Revue des Arts. 2 (1951): 94-101.
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  • Evans, 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.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 309, repro.
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  • Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:212, color repro.
  • European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 84, repro.
  • Brown, 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.
  • Lipschutz, Ilse H. Spanish Painting and the French Romantics. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 37.
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  • Gaya Nuño, Juan A. L'opera completa di Murillo. Milan, 1978: 109-110, color pl. 53, fig. 253.
  • Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 63, pl. 47, color repro.
  • Valdivieso, Enrique, and Juan Miguel Serrera. El Hospital de la Caridad de Sevilla. Seville, 1980: pl. 38, no. 1.
  • Angulo Iñiguez, Diego. Murillo: Su vida, su arte, su obra. 3 vols. Madrid, 1981: 1:396-398; 2:86-87, figs. 274-277.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 247, no. 316, color repro.
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  • Tomlinson, Janis. From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561-1828, New York, 1997, no. 51, repro.

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