The Departure of the Prodigal Son

Karel van Mander I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1548 - 1606

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with white on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 36.4 x 29.9 cm (14 5/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
    support: 41.2 x 32.7 cm (16 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.48.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Frankfurt, Prestel 10-16 November 1920, no. 2296 as Jeremias van Winjhe); (sale, Amsterdam, DeVries 24-25 January 1922, no. 614 as Joos van Winjhe); (sale, Amsterdam, DeVries 1929 as Joos van Winjhe); B. Houthakker, Amsterdam; (Galerie Kurt Meissner); purchased by NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.

Bibliography

1959

  • Meissner, 100 ZEICHNUNGEN AUS FUNF JAHRHUNDERTEN 1967/68, 61.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower right in brown ink: Hescher; lower center inbrown ink, on mount: [illegible]; lower left verso in grpahit e: Karl van Mander / No.3734 7MB55XW

Wikidata ID

Q64591810


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