The Prodigal Son

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 10.1 x 8.4 cm (4 x 3 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3256

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Maison 1968, no. 757

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • Daumier: 1808-1879, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no. 193, repro. (shown only in Ottawa).

Bibliography

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 1049

Wikidata ID

Q64574422

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