The Departure of the Prodigal Son
Artist, Netherlandish, 1548 - 1606

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with white on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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