The Return of the Prodigal Son (Murillo) WikiZero

The Return of the Prodigal Son is a c. 1667-1670 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to which it was given by the Avalon Foundation in 1948.^[1]

The work is one of eight paintings commissioned for Seville's Hermandad de la Caridad, to which the artist himself belonged and one of whose commandments was to clothe the naked. Four of those eight works remain in Seville (The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, Moses at the Rock of Horeb, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man), whereas the Washington work and the other three were looted by Napoleon's army in 1810 (The Healing of the Paralytic, National Gallery, London; Abraham Receiving the Three Angels, National Gallery of Canada; The Liberation of Saint Peter, Hermitage Museum).^[2]

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^ "Catalogue entry".
^ (in Spanish) "El Prado restaura "San Juan de Dios", una de las ocho obras de Murillo para la Hermandad de la Santa Caridad sevillana". 7 February 2006.

v t e Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Immaculate Conceptions	San Vicente (c. 1640–1650) La Colasal (1645–1655) Esquilache (1645–1655) El Escorial (1660–1665) Museo Soumaya (c. 1670) Aranjuez (c. 1675) Los Venerables (c. 1678) Walpole (c. 1680)
Other religious works	The Vision of Fray Lauterio (c. 1640) Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1640–1645) Saint Francis of Assisi at Prayer (c. 1645–1650) The Angels' Kitchen (1646) The Flight into Egypt (1647–1650) Adoration of the Shepherds (Madrid; c. 1650) The Holy Family with a Little Bird (1650) Our Lady of the Rosary (1650–1655) Saint Roderick (c. 1650–1655) Rebecca and Eleazar (1652) The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua (1656) The Good Shepherd (c. 1660) The Birth of the Virgin (1661) Christ after the Flagellation (Boston; c. 1665) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1665) The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Bernard (c. 1665) Mater Dolorosa (1665) The Patrician's Dream (1665) Saint Anthony with the Christ Child (1665–1666, 1668–1669) Liberation of Peter (1665–1667) Isaac Blessing Jacob (1665–1670) Saint Justa and Saint Rufina (c. 1666) Madonna and Child of the Napkin (c. 1666) Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda (c. 1667–1670) Christ on the Cross (San Diego; c. 1667–1670) The Return of the Prodigal Son (c. 1667–1670) The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Edinburgh; c. 1667–1682) Adoration of the Shepherds (London; c. 1668) Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms (c. 1668) Saint Francis Embracing Christ on the Cross (1668–1669) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1668–1670) The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (Seville; c. 1669–1674) Moses at the Rock of Horeb (c. 1669–1674) Christ after the Flagellation (Champaign; c. 1670) Abraham and the Three Angels (c. 1670–1674) The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell (1670–1675) Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Curing the Sick (1672) Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man (1672) Ecce Homo (c. 1672–1678) Christ on the Cross (New York; c. 1675) The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew (1675–1682) Christ on the Cross (Madrid; c. 1675) Saint Thomas of Villanova Healing a Lame Man (c. 1675) The Conversion of Saint Paul (c. 1675–1680) Christ on the Cross (Madrid; c. 1677) The Christ Child Distributing Bread to Pilgrims (1678) The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities (c. 1680)
Genre works	The Young Beggar (1645–1650) Children Eating Grapes and a Melon (1645–1650) Four Figures on a Step (c. 1655–1660) Boy with a Dog (1655–1660) Two Women at a Window (1665–1675) The Little Fruitseller (c. 1670–1675) Children Eating a Tart (1670–1675) The Flower Girl (c. 1675–1680)
Portraits	Portrait of Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga (c. 1653) Portrait of Íñigo Melchor Fernandez de Velasco (1658–1659)
Related	Baroque painting Casa de Murillo

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