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The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. III: The Return,
1881
James Tissot, French, 1836–1902
2013-114 d
Just as in the other prints from this series, Tissot relocated the scene of the son’s return to the present setting of a rain-coated dock on the River Thames, where pigs and cattle are being unloaded from a ship. As his older brother watches, the hungry and hopeless son falls to his knees in repentance, only to be welcomed by the warm embrace of his father, so passionate that the old man’s hat falls to the wet ground below.
Information
Title
The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. III: The Return
Dates
1881
Maker
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 31.2 x 37.2 cm. (12 5/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
sheet: 50.2 x 61.8 cm. (19 3/4 x 24 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund
Object Number
2013-114 d
Place Made
Europe, England, London
Inscription
Signed and dated in plates below image, lower right corner : J.J. Tissot / 1881
Reference Numbers
Béraldi 132.51; Wentworth 60
Materials
Techniques
Subject
The Return
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Henri Béraldi, "Volume 12," Les graveurs du XIXe siècle (Paris: L. Conquet, 1892).
, no. 52, p. 132 - Michael Justin Wentworth, James Tissot: catalogue raisonné of his prints, (Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1978)., no. 61
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2013," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 73 (2014): p. 37-64., p. 59
