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The Prodigal Son
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The Prodigal Son

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder | Salvator Rosa | John Boydell | Richard Earlom

1781

Medium

Etching; early state

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Dimensions

Sheet (trimmed close to plateline): 20 1/4 × 15 1/16 in. (51.5 × 38.2 cm) Leaf: 28 15/16 × 20 1/2 in. (73.5 × 52 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

1706 |1733 |1706 –1774 |1810 |1774 • French|German|French

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