Art, literature & history
Le retour de l'enfant prodigue (3e planche) (The Return of the Prodigal Son) (third plate)
1909
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid Van Gelder paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 29 × 21.7 cm (11 7/16 × 8 9/16 in.) sheet: 48.7 × 36.5 cm (19 3/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3756
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Louis Forain. Le retour de l'enfant prodigue (3e planche) (The Return of the Prodigal Son) (third plate). Jean-Louis Forain; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Le retour de l'enfant prodigue (3e planche) (The Return of the Prodigal Son) (third plate) — Jean-Louis Forain. 1909.
Medium: etching on laid Van Gelder paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 29 × 21.7 cm (11 7/16 × 8 9/16 in.) sheet: 48.7 × 36.5 cm (19 3/16 × 14 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3756. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.