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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

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Commissioned for the Hospital de la Caridad [Hospital of Charity], Seville; removed by government decree to Alcázar, Seville, 1810, whence it was taken to Paris in 1812 by Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia [1769-1851]; sold 1835 to George Granville [1786-1861], 2nd duke of Sutherland, Stafford House, London; by descent to George Granville [1888-1963], 5th duke of Sutherland; sold 7 January 1948 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd, London); sold 30 December 1948 to the Avalon Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1948 to NGA.

[1]Stockbook no. 9765, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.

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