Return of the Prodigal Son, between 1525 and 1550

  • Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500-1550

Engraving printed in black ink on cream laid paper

  • Image and sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 7/8 inches (6 × 9.8 cm)

Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund

2003.72

Signed, in plate, upper right: [artist's monogram]

Marks, in purple ink, verso: Alfred Misch (Lugt Supplement p. 256)

Inscribed, in plate, upper center: FILIVS MORTVVS ERAT, ET REVIXIT, DERIERAT, ET INVENTVS EST, LVCE XV

2003-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hans Sebald Beham, Return of the Prodigal Son, between 1525 and 1550, engraving printed in black ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, 2003.72.