About the Artwork
L'Enfant prodigue
1913
Auguste Louis Lepère
1849-1918
French
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 10 1/4 × 13 1/8 inches (26 × 33.3 cm) Sheet: 11 7/8 × 14 7/8 inches (30.2 × 37.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Hal H. Smith
45.297
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Markings
Signed in plate, lower center of image: AL Lower left: A. Lepere In pencil, lower right: A.Lepere
Inscribed in pencil, lower left: 8/50 Titled, bottom left edge: L'enfant prodigue
Stamp in red, lower right: A. Lepere (Lugt 141) Drystamp, bottom right edge: E. Sagot (Lugt 2254)
Provenance
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Auguste Louis Lepère, L'Enfant prodigue, 1913, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Hal H. Smith, 45.297.
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