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Study for 'Le Retour de l' Enfant prodigue' Study for 'Le Retour de l' Enfant prodigue'
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre
(Draughtsman)
History note: C.H. Dancock, Executor's sale, Christie's, 28 November 1908, lot 116, bought Agnew for Louis C.G. Clarke
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 310 mm
Width: 239 mm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1961)
by
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Support composed of paper ( blue-grey)
Drawing : Black chalk on blue-grey paper
Accession number: PD.86-1961
Primary reference Number: 6730
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Study for 'Le Retour de l' Enfant prodigue'"
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Accession Number: 2137
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Accession Number: PD.31-1998
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