Le Partage des Biens, pièce appelée aussi L'Enfant Prodigue Reçoit sa Part d'Héritage (The Dividing of Assets, also called The Prodigal Son Receiving His Inheritance), from "L'Enfant Prodigue" (The Prodigal Son)
Medium
Etching; second state of three (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 7/16 x 3 5/16 in. (6.2 x 8.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-316
Tags
MenWomenWorking
About the Artist
Israël Henriet|Jacques Callot · 1585–1661
Israël Henriet (c. 1590–1661) stands as one of the most important figures in 17th-century French printmaking, not only as an accomplished engraver in his own right but as the principal publisher and preserver of Jacques Callot's extraordinary legacy. Born in Nancy, Lorraine, around 1590, Henriet belonged to an artistic family and grew up as a childhood friend of Callot, the preeminent printmaker o...