The Prodigal Son, (sculpture).

The Prodigal Son, (sculpture).

Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938, sculptor.

The Prodigal Son, (sculpture).

37 x 24 1/2 x 18 in. (94 x 62.2 x 45.7 cm)

(Inscribed on base, lower right side:) Moret-sur-Loing/1906.

Religion -- Old Testament -- Prodigal Son

Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 19.7.2

Formerly in the collection of Barnard, George Grey, until 1919.

Purchased 1919.

This work is a reduced replica from the father and son pair in Barnard's "Unbroken Law" on the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building in Harrisburg (see IAS 75009241).

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992.

Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 58.

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