The Parable of the Prodigal Son, No. III: The Return
1882
Medium
Etching on laid paper; second state of two
Dimensions
sheet: 20 3/16 x 24 13/16 in. (51.2 x 63 cm) plate: 12 11/16 x 15 1/8 in. (32.3 x 38.4 cm) frame: 24 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (62.2 x 77.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.597.4
Tags
About the Artist
James Tissot · 1836–1902
James Tissot (1836–1902) was a French painter and printmaker who spent much of his career in England and became renowned for his meticulously detailed depictions of fashionable Victorian society. Born Jacques Joseph Tissot in Nantes, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis Lamothe and Hippolyte Flandrin and exhibited at the Salon from 1859. Tissot's early career in Paris produ...