Cleveland Museum of Art
The Prodigal Son
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- c. 1496
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 153330
From LinkedCulture
A young man kneels in the mud, surrounded by pigs pressing against a wooden trough, while a cluster of steep-gabled German farmhouses rises behind him. This is Albrecht Dürer's engraving of The Prodigal Son, made around 1496 when he was just in his mid-twenties. Using a burin with extraordinary control, Dürer rendered bristled pig hides, cracked plaster walls, and soft fabric folds with equal precision, proving that printmaking could match painting in capturing the texture of real life.
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A man kneels beside a group of pigs, feeding them from a trough.
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- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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