The Prodigal Son

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with black wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 21.2 x 15 cm (8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3238

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Maison 1968, no. 754

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Honoré Daumier Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1958.

  • Honoré Daumier: Exhibition of Prints, Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings, and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum, 1958, 217.

1999

  • Daumier: 1808-1879, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no. 191, repro. (shown only in Paris and Washington).

2013

  • Daumier ist ungebeuer!, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor der Landesbank Berlin Holding AG, Max Lieberman Haus, Berlin, 2013, no. 8.18, repro.

Bibliography

1958

  • Feinblatt 1958, 215 (dated c.1865-66).

  • Wick 1958, 174.

1968

  • Maison, K.E. Honore Daumier: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings. 2 vols. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower right verso: KK 1050

Wikidata ID

Q64574402

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