Art, literature & history
The Return of the Prodigal Son
1540
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1197
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Sebald Beham. The Return of the Prodigal Son. Sebald Beham; 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
The Return of the Prodigal Son — Sebald Beham. 1540.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1197. 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.